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Emergence of anomalies

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Paradigm shift

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Introduction

• Logic of medical language

  • Classical logic

  • Probabilistic logic

  • Fuzzy logic

  • System logic

• Complex System

• Logic language in the masticatory system. Part 1: Introduction to quantum diagnostics

  • ​Exploring electroencephalography with a model inspired by quantum mechanics

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

Hemimasticatory spasm​

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• 1° Clinical case: Emimasticatory spasm

  • ​Hemifacial Spasm

  • Long-Term Outcome of Hemimasticatory Spasm

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

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Bruxism

• 2° Clinical case: Pineal Cavernoma

  • IInternational consensus on the assessment of bruxism: Report of a work in progress

  • 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

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Occlusion and Posture

• 3° Clinical case: Meningioma

  • Analysis of Dental Malocclusion and Neuromotor Control in Young Healthy Subjects through New Evaluation Tools

  • 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

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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: Postpoly syndrome​

  • Pain in post-polio syndrome: A separate pain entity?​

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Are we sure to know everything?​

• 6° Clinical case: Neuroblastoma in Orofacial pain

  • Revolutionary Science

  • Kuhnian revolutions in neuroscience: the role of tool development

  • Diagnostic Delay and Its Predictors in Cluster Headache

Logic language in masticatory system. Part 4: Decryption of verbal language​​​

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Emergence of anomalies

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Paradigm shift

Emergence of anomalies

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Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC)

• Sensitivity, Specificity and Predictive Values

• Advantages and limitations of the RDC​

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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 replicator

• Advantages and limits of pantography reproducibility Index

• Advantages and limits of axiography

• Advantages and limits of the 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)

• Interferential EMG

• 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

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Emergence of anomalies

Paradigm shift

Paradigm shift

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Connectivity and Complex Systems

• Definition of the Fundamental Unit

• Structural and functional connectivity Separation

• Understanding of "Emergent Behavior"

• Connectivity measurement

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System Inference vs Symptom Inference

• System Stochasticity

• Markov chains

• Inference of nonlinear Markov processes

• Understanding of Network nodes

Masticatory Neurophysiology 

• Center of the Masticatory Pattern

• Mesencephalic mechanisms

• Trigeminal Motor nucleus

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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

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Trigeminal System Connectivity

• Definition of the Fundamental Unit​​

• Separation of structural and functional connectivity

  • Maximal Neuronal Energy Evoked

  • Bilateral Trigeminal neuromotor organic symmetry

  • Functional motor symmetry

  • Renormalization​​​

  • Organic vs Functional Symmetry

  • ​Functional Neuro Gnathological Index "NGF"

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New neurophysiological paradigm in masticatory rehabilitations

• Prosthetics

• Implantoprosthetics

• Othodontics

• Orthognatics