Irreversible human brain

Umberto Lucia

doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2012.11.001

Irreversible human brain

Med Hypotheses. 2013 Feb;80(2):112-4. doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2012.11.001. Epub 2012 Nov 24.

Author

Umberto Lucia¹

Affiliation

¹ Dipartimento Energia, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy. umberto.lucia@polito.it

PMID: 23186801
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2012.11.001

Abstract

The recent developments in thermodynamic analysis of irreversibility for open systems represent an important result useful in the study of brain, both in relation to its neurobiology and to its diseases. In this paper the extrema entropy generation principle is suggested as a new powerful approach to the study of brain.

MeSH terms

Body Temperature
Brain / physiology*
Brain Chemistry / physiology*
Entropy*
Homeostasis / physiology*
Humans
Models, Biological*
Thermodynamics