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PHYSICS OF OUR DAYS

Subject of study — the aging brain

G. R. Ivanitskii, A. A. Morozov

Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushino, Moscow region

Abstract: Progress in research aimed at combating neurodegenerative diseases requires a systematic biophysical analysis. It has been shown that the efficiency of cleaning the brain of metabolic and informational ‘toxins’ depends on the thresholds of excitation of neural networks and waves of ‘pollution and purification’ propagating inside the brain. This process affects the increase in the characteristic time of the normal functioning of the brain and, consequently, in human life expectancy.

Keywords: neurodegenerative diseases, biological rhythms, sleep, mathematical modeling, wave processes, dynamic stability of life.

PACS: 87.18.-h, 87.19.L-, 87.19.xt

Received: March 20, 2020
Revised: June 10, 2020
Accepted: June 13, 2020

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.2020.06.038791

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 2020, 63:11, 1092–1113

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