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‘Il progresso della Scienza è essenzialmente un processo anarchico’
Paul Karl Feyerabend
Scienza Normale
- Logica di linguaggio medico
- Sistemi Complessi
- Logica del linguaggio medico: introduzione alla probabilità quantistica nel sistema masticatorio
- Conclusioni sullo status quo nella logica del linguaggio medico riguardo al sistema masticatorio
- 6° Caso clinico: Neuropatia sensoriale e motoria ad esordio facciale
- 7° Caso clinico: Neoplasia del tronco encefalico nel dolore orofacciale
- Conclusion of the ‘Normal Science’ section
Crisi del Paradigma
Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC)
- Masticatory cycles
- Jaw opening width
- Speed of mandibular movement
- Complexity of chewing kinematics
Temporomandibular Joint
- Computerized Tomography of the TMJ
- Magnetic resonance imaging of the TMJ
Mandibular kinematic replicators
- Advantages and limits of Kinematic replicators
- Pantography
- Axiography
- Electrognatography
Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation
- Free way space before stimulation
- Free way space after stimulation
- Closing trajectory from TENS
Electromyography (EMG)
- EMG Interferential pattern
- EMG at rest position
- Quantitative analysis of the EMG
- Fourier transform
- Wavelett
Conclusions to the Paradigm crisis chapter
- Incompleteness in the 'Research Diagnostic Criteria'
- Need for a new paradigm
Scienza Straordinaria
Masticatory Neurophysiology
- Center of masticatory pattern
- Mesencephalic mecchanism
- Trigeminal Motor nucleus
Sensory network
- Proprioceptive mechanisms
- Neuromuscular spindles
- Sensory mechanisms from the depressor muscles
- Golgi Tendon organs
- Role of impulses from the neck muscles
- Periodontal and oral Sensory Factor
- Pharyngeal sensory closure
- Sensory factors of the TMJ
Trigeminal System Connectivity
- Definition of the Fundamental Unit
- Structural and functional connectivity separation
- Understanding of 'Emergent Behaviour'
- Connectivity measurement
- Maximal Neural Energy Evoked
- Bilateral Trigeminal neuromotor organic symmetry
- Functional motor symmetry
- Normalization concept
- Organic vs Functional Symmetry
- Neuro Gnathological Functions paradigm
- New Clinical Index