Memory beyond memory in heart beating, a sign of a healthy physiological condition

P. Allegrini, P. Grigolini, P. Hamilton, L. Palatella, and G. Raffaelli
Phys. Rev. E 65, 041926 – Published 11 April 2002
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Abstract

We describe two types of memory and illustrate each using artificial and actual heartbeat data sets. The first type of memory, yielding anomalous diffusion, implies the inverse power-law nature of the waiting time distribution and the second the correlation among distinct times, and consequently also the occurrence of many pseudoevents, namely, not genuinely random events. Using the method of diffusion entropy analysis, we establish the scaling that would be determined by the real events alone. We prove that the heart beating of healthy patients reveals the existence of many more pseudoevents than in the patients with congestive heart failure.

  • Received 25 July 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.65.041926

©2002 American Physical Society

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P. Allegrini1, P. Grigolini2,3,4, P. Hamilton5, L. Palatella3, and G. Raffaelli3

  • 1Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Area della Ricerca di Pisa-S. Cataldo, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124, Ghezzano-Pisa, Italy
  • 2Center for Nonlinear Science, University of North Texas, P.O. Box 311427, Denton, Texas, 76203-1427
  • 3Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università di Pisa and INFM Piazza Torricelli 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy
  • 4Istituto di Biofisica del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Area della Ricerca di Pisa-S. Cataldo, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124, Ghezzano-Pisa, Italy
  • 5Center for Nonlinear Science, Texas Woman’s University, P.O. Box 425498, Denton, Texas 76204

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Vol. 65, Iss. 4 — April 2002

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