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All major organ systems of the body display rhythmic activity. These rhythms interact with one another and with the external environment to provide complex dynamics which underly fundamental life processes. The point of this presentation is to provide a brief summary of the role of coupled oscillators in normal and pathophysiology (Section 1), to sketch out experimental approaches to the study of coupled oscillators and indicate some main results (Section 2) and finally to indicate mathematical approaches and problems involved in the analysis (Section3).
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Glass, L. (1987). Coupled Oscillators in Health and Disease. In: Temporal Disorder in Human Oscillatory Systems. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 36. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72637-8_2
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