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. 2018 May-Jun;18(3):194-196.
doi: 10.5698/1535-7597.18.3.194.

A Lunatic Dance: Circadian and Multidien Structures of Seizure Timing

Liset Menendez de la Prida
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A Lunatic Dance: Circadian and Multidien Structures of Seizure Timing

Liset Menendez de la Prida. Epilepsy Curr. 2018 May-Jun.
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(a) A torus is the product of two oscillations, here representing a day (circadian) and a turn around the sun (year). Time evolves over the torus surface along days and months. Baud and colleagues showed that the rate of IEAs oscillates during the day and along weeks, possibly reflecting fluctuations of brain excitability. (b) A multidien oscillation modulates the amplitude of circadian rate. If one looks at a day of recording, infra-slower oscillations are reported and, within them, other oscillations and so on. It is as though the surface of the torus were not flat but corrugated at any spatial scale we view. (d) This corrugated surface is conceptualized as a corrugated torus in 3D, a complex topological structure. Images of the torus were developed by V. Borrelli, S. Jabrane, F. Lazarus, D. Rohmer and B. Thibert under a Creative Commons license. See the Hevea project (http://hevea-project.fr/).
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