Title :
Power law and fractional derivative models can measure analgesia
Author :
Ionescu, Clara Mihaela ; Ionescu, Florina Dana
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Autom. & Comput., Tech. Univ. of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Abstract :
It is known that the human brain reacts favorably to whatever it perceives as beautiful. It is also equally known that beauty is in fact an ideal symmetry in the objects, phenomena and natural processes of any kind. Using this insight, we have shown that patterns can be build to represent the human body in a concise, structural and geometrical form. In this paper we use the same insights to deduct the process of brain activation to mechanical stimuli of the skin receptors. This work is aimed to discuss the understanding of the pain transmission process in the body using tools from mathematics, i.e. fractional calculus.
Keywords :
brain; calculus; medicine; neurophysiology; analgesia measure; brain activation process; fractional calculus; fractional derivative model; human brain; pain transmission process; power law model; skin receptors; Anesthesia; Biological system modeling; Brain models; Drugs; Fractals; Fractional calculus; anesthesia; closed loop control; fractional order impedance; nonlinear dynamics; power law;
Conference_Titel :
Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics, 2014 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cluj-Napoca
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3731-8
DOI :
10.1109/AQTR.2014.6857908
