Normal Science

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Introduction

• Logic of medical language

  • The logic of Classical language

  • The logic of Probabilistic language

  • Fuzzy logic

  • System logic

• The Complex Systems

• Logic of medical language: Introduction to quantum-like probability in the masticatory system

  • ​Exploring electroencephalography with a model inspired by quantum mechanics*

  • Quantum-like modeling in biology with open quantum systems and instruments*

• Conclusions on the status quo in the logic of medical language regarding the masticatory system

 

Hemimasticatory spasm​

• 1° Clinical case: Emimasticatory spasm

  • Physiological Dynamics in Demyelinating Diseases: Unraveling Complex Relationships through Computer Modeling

  • ​Intermittent facial spasms as the presenting sign of a recurrent pleomorphic adenoma​

• Encrypted code: Ephaptic transmission 

 

 

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Bruxism

• 2° Clinical case: Pineal Cavernoma

  • The neuro-pathophysiology of temporomandibular disorders-related pain: a systematic review of structural and functional MRI studies*

  • The neurophysiological basis of bruxism*

  • Is dopaminergic medication dose associated with self-reported bruxism in Parkinson’s disease? A cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study*

  • ​Interdisciplinary recognizing and managing of drug‐induced tardive oromandibular dystonia: two case reports*

• Encrypted code: Hyperexcitability of the trigeminal system

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Occlusion and Posture

• 3° Clinical case: Meningioma ​

  • Association between constitution, axiography, analysis of dental casts, and postural control in women aged between 41 and 50 years*

  • Effect of dental malocclusion on cerebellar neuron activation via the dorsomedial part of the principal sensory trigeminal nucleus*

• Encrypted code: Motor Evoked Myogenic potentials

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Orofacial Pain

• 4° Clinical case: Temporomandibular disorders​

  • Temporomandibular Syndrome

  • Clinical, psychological, and sensory characteristics associated with headache attributed to temporomandibular disorder in people with chronic myogenous temporomandibular disorder and primary headaches*

  • An artificially intelligent (or algorithm-enhanced) electronic medical record in orofacial pain*

• 5° Clinical case: Spontaneous Electromyographic Activity

  • Abnormal Spontaneous Electromyographic Activity*

  • Demystifying the spontaneous phenomena of motor hyperexcitability*

• Encrypted code: The trigeminal symmetry

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Are we sure to know everything?​

• 6° Clinical case: Brainstem neoplasm in Orofacial pain

• 7° Clinical case: Trigeminal neurodegenerative pathology

  • Kuhnian revolutions in neuroscience: the role of tool development*

  • Diagnostic Delay and Its Predictors in Cluster Headache*

  • Revolutionary Science*

• Conclusion about Normal Science chapter

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Crisis of Paradigm

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Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC)

• ​​​Masticatory cycles

  • Jaw opening width

  • Speed of mandibular movement

  • Complexity of chewing kinematics​

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Temporomandibular Joint

• Computerized Tomography of the TMJ

• Magnetic resonance imaging of the TMJ

 

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Mandibular kinematic replicators

• Advantages and limits of  Kinematic replicators

  • Pantography

  • Axiography

  • Electrognatography

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Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation

• Free way space before stimulation

• Free way space after stimulation

• Closing trajectory from TENS

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Electromyography (EMG)

• EMG  Interferential pattern

• EMG at rest position

• Quantitative analysis of the EMG 

  • Fourier transform

  • Wavelett

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Conclusions to the Paradigm crisis chapter

• Incompleteness in the 'Research Diagnostic Criteria'

• Need for a new paradigm

Extraordinary science

Masticatory Neurophysiology 

• Center of the Masticatory Pattern

• Mesencephalic mechanisms

• 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 Factors

• Pharyngeal sensory factors

• Reflex of mandibular closure

• Sensory factors of the TMJ

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Electrophysiological overall view of the Masticatory System

• Overall view of the Masticatory System

• ​Trigeminal electrophysiological segmentation

  • ​Electric Motors Evoked Potentials

  • Magnetic Motors Evoked Potentials

  • Jaw jerk reflex

  • M-wave

  • Masseteric Mechanical Silent Period

  • Masseteric Electric Silent Period

  • Masseteric Laser Silent Period

  • Recovery Cycle of Masseteric Inhibitory reflex

 

 

Trigeminal System Connectivity

• Definition of the Fundamental Unit

• Structural and functional connectivity Separation

• Understanding of "Emergent Behavior"

• Connectivity measurement

  • Maximal Neuronal Energy Evoked

  • Bilateral Trigeminal neuromotor organic symmetry

  • Functional motor symmetry

  • Normalization

    • Muscle activation during maximum voluntary contraction and m-wave related in healthy but not in injured conditions: Implications when normalizing electromyography​​​

  • Organic vs Functional Symmetry

  • ​Neuro Gnathological Functions paradigm

  • Psi Index