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‘The progress of Science is essentially an anarchic process’
Paul Karl Feyerabend

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Normal Science

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Introduction

• Logic of medical language
  • The logic of classical language
  • The logic of the probabilistic language
  • Fuzzy language logic
  • System logic
• The Complex Systems
• Logic of medical language: Introduction to quantum-like probability in the masticatory system
• Conclusions on the status quo in the logic of medical language regarding the masticatory system

Hemimasticatory spasm

• 1° Clinical case: Emimasticatory spasm
  • Encrypted code: Ephaptic transmission

Bruxism

• 2° Clinical case: Pineal Cavernoma
  • Encrypted code: Hyperexcitability of the trigeminal system

Occlusion and Posture

• 3° Clinical case: Meningioma
  • Encrypted code: Bilateral Motor Evoked Potentials of trigeminal root

Orofacial Pain

• 4° Clinical case: Temporomandibular disorders
• 5° Clinical case: Spontaneous Electromyographic Activity

Are we sure to know everything?

• 6° Clinical case: Facial onset sensory and motor neuronopathy
• 7° Clinical case: Brainstem neoplasm in Orofacial pain

Conclusion of the ‘Normal Science’ section

Crisis of Paradigm

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Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC)

• Jaw movements analysis: Electrognathographic Replicator
  • Transverse Hinge Axis
  • Vertical Hinge Axis
  • The Magic of the Condylar Sphere

• Jaw movements analysis:Pantographic Replicator
  • Intercondylar Distance
  • Advantage and Limit of Pantography

• Jaw movements analysis:Axiographic Replicator
  • Interfacial Distance
  • Advantage and Limit of Axiography

• Electromyography (EMG)
  • EMG  Interferential pattern
  • EMG at rest position
  • Quantitative Analysis of EMG
  • Fourier transform
  • Wavelett

• Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation
  • Intraocclusal free way space
    • The mysterious "Muscle tone"
  • Closing trajectory from TENS

Beyond the RDC

• Clinical Electromyography
• Artificial Neural Networks: Automatic Neuromuscular Diagnostic
• Trigeminal Neurophysiopathology
• Trigeminal Nociceptive Evaluation in TMD Patients by studying CO2-Laser Evoked Potentials and Masseter Laser Silent Periods
• Electrical and Magnetic Stimulation of the Central and Peripheral Nervous System:Modeling of Generated Fields and Data Interpretation
• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Brain Plasticity in Post-Stroke Recovery
• Pain Pathophysiology
• Role of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors in Pain
• Neuronal Basis of Neuropathic Pain and Neuroprotective Mechanisms of Antiepileptic Drugs
• Use of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) in Pain Research
• Neuroradiology in Craniofacial Pain

Conclusions to the Paradigm crisis section

Extraordinary science

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Connectivity

• Defining the Fundamental Unit
• Separating Structural Connectivity and Functional Connectivity
• Understanding emergent behaviour
• Measuring connectivity

Introduction to trigeminal electrophysiology

• General Context
• Electrical Stimulation
• Recording Electrical Activity
• Electrodes for Stimulation and Recording
• Analysis Software
• Synchronization and Latency
• Optional Modules

Trigeminal Structural Connectivity (SC)

• Trigeminal Root Motor Evoked Potentials (R-MEPS)
  • Description
  • Characteristics

Trigeminal Functional Connectivity (FC)

• Jaw jerk
• Masseter tendon silent period
• Masseter electrical silent period
• Recovery cycle of the masseter inhibitory reflex
• H-wave

Index $\Psi$

• Model description
  • Role of trigeminal motor evoked potentials (R-MEPS) in evaluating SC
  • Role of trigeminal reflexes in evaluating FC
  • Separation between Structural Connectivity (SC) and Functional Connectivity (FC)
  • Emergent Behaviour
• Quantum Modelling of the Index $\Psi$
  • Quantum Bayes Theorem (QBayes)
  • Differences from the classical approach
• Expectation Value and model description
  • Mathematical Formalism of QBayes
  • Cosine of $\psi$ as a measure of the overlap between concomitant pathologies

Indices $\Psi$ in the masticatory rehabilitation

• Orthodontic field
• Orofacial.pain
• Implant-Prosthetics field
• Prosthetic field