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Refractory period (physiology)

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Design and modelling of a tubular dielectric elastomer actuator with constrained radial displacement as a cardiac assist device

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Armando Matthieu Walter, Jonathan André Jean-Marie Chavanne

In this paper, we propose an improvement of a dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) based augmented aorta. The actuator is a multi-layered tubular DEA subject to the internal pressure of the blood. When activated in synchronisation with the heart, the DEA su ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

A computational biophysical model of thalamic and reticular nucleus microcircuitry: from neurons to emergent network dynamics

Elisabetta Iavarone

The thalamus, once believed to be a simple relay station between the body periphery and the neocortex, has started to be recognized as a key player in higher-order functions, such as attention. It participates in the transition between brain states, such a ...

EPFL2020

Deep learning-based reduced order models in cardiac electrophysiology

Alfio Quarteroni, Andrea Manzoni

Predicting the electrical behavior of the heart, from the cellular scale to the tissue level, relies on the numerical approximation of coupled nonlinear dynamical systems. These systems describe the cardiac action potential, that is the polarization/depola ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2020

Mitochondrial cristae modeled as an out-of-equilibrium membrane driven by a proton field

Anne-Florence Raphaëlle Bitbol

As the places where most of the fuel of the cell, namely, ATP, is synthesized, mitochondria are crucial organelles in eukaryotic cells. The shape of the invaginations of the mitochondria inner membrane, known as a crista, has been identified as a signature ...

2020

Low-dimensional firing-rate dynamics for populations of renewal-type spiking neurons

Tilo Schwalger

The macroscopic dynamics of large populations of neurons can be mathematically analyzed using low-dimensional firing-rate or neural-mass models. However, these models fail to capture spike synchronization effects and nonstationary responses of the populati ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

On the stability and dynamics of stochastic spiking neuron models: Nonlinear Hawkes process and point process GLMs

Joao Emanuel Felipe Gerhard, Moritz Deger

Point process generalized linear models (PP-GLMs) provide an important statistical framework for modeling spiking activity in single-neurons and neuronal networks. Stochastic stability is essential when sampling from these models, as done in computational ...

Public Library of Science2017

Multi-timescale Modeling of Activity-Dependent Metabolic Coupling in the Neuron-Glia-Vasculature Ensemble

Pierre Magistretti, Igor Allaman, Jay Coggan, Renaud Jolivet

Glucose is the main energy substrate in the adult brain under normal conditions. Accumulating evidence, however, indicates that lactate produced in astrocytes (a type of glial cell) can also fuel neuronal activity. The quantitative aspects of this so-calle ...

Public Library of Science2015

Inverse identification of infarcted areas inside the cardiac muscle through an optimal control formulation for cardiac electrophysiology equations

Seif Ben Bader

The project deals with the finite element approximation of the monodomain equation, which models the propagation of the electrical potential in the cardiac muscle through a coupled system of PDE’s. The goal is to recover the shape of an infarcted area insi ...

2015

Finite element and finite volume-element simulation of pseudo-ECGs and cardiac alternans

Alfio Quarteroni, Ricardo Esteban Ruiz Baier

In this paper, we are interested in the spatio-temporal dynamics of the transmembrane potential in paced isotropic and anisotropic cardiac tissues. In particular, we observe a specific precursor of cardiac arrhythmias that is the presence of alternans in t ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Influence of Right and Left Atrial Tissue Heterogeneity on Atrial Fibrillation Perpetuation

Jean-Marc Vesin, Adrian Luca, Vincent Jacquemet

We propose a biophysical modelling approach to separately investigate the impact of right and left atrial (RA/LA) electrical heterogeneity on atrial fibrillation (AF) perpetuation. The baseline AF substrate was based on a 4:1 anisotropy ratio and uniform m ...

2015

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