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Crucial Event Rehabilitation Therapy

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The potential role that CERT can play in rejuvenating the human brain functionality following the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases is discussed. CERT assumes that ONs form a communications web within the body. The ONs exchange information with one another through fractal time series, each healthy ON having an internal balance of crucial and non-crucial events. In addition to carrying out the normal functions of the body, these ONs play a central role in using complexity synchronization (CS) to alleviate the disruption of brain dynamics caused by neurodegenerative disease and/or injury. Of particular interest in this essay is the noninvasive rehabilitation of the neurodegeneration of the brain once a given pathophysiology has been initiated. The rehabilitation discussed herein is theoretical in that CERT is based on several theoretical assumptions that have only been partially tested, but whose veracity can be further vetted by processing additional empirical ON datasets. Can we mitigate the processes associated with the neurodegeneration within the brain associated with Alzheimerís Disease (AD) and/or Parkinsonís Disease (PD) using CERT? To address this question, we examine in some detail the breakdown of communication among neurons in a somewhat better understood pathophysiology process than that available for either AD or PD.

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Notes

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    Large parts of this section constitute a revision of a white paper [92] composed in 2020 for a proposal, but it remains unpublished.

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    This has huge implications in the treatment of many chronic health diseases involving the immune system and inflammation.

    A poorly functioning Vagus Nerve has been associated with depression, panic disorders, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), irritable bowel syndrome, anxiety, epilepsy, fibromyalgia, and dementia.

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  1. Center for Nonlinear Science, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA

    Bruce J. West

  2. Department of Physics, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA

    Paolo Grigolini

  3. Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica, Universidad de Tarapacs, Arica, Chile

    Mauro Bologna

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West, B.J., Grigolini, P., Bologna, M. (2023). Empirical CERTs . In: Crucial Event Rehabilitation Therapy. SpringerBriefs in Bioengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46277-1_4

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