Biotic patterns of heart rate variation in depressed and psychotic subjects.

This article presents novel quantitative methods to study R to R interval (RRI) series that identify their characteristic pattern of organization, Bios, and their variation in psychiatric illness. In this study twenty-four hour series of RRI were extracted from Holter recordings of healthy subjects (N = 74) and small groups of patients with affective depression or psychosis. These data were analyzed with recurrence and statistical methods.

Homeobios: the pattern of heartbeats in newborns, adults, and elderly patients.

HRV has been found useful in the study of cardiological illness in adults and elders, as well as in monitoring prenatal health. Twenty-four hour Holter recordings of R to R intervals (RRI) in healthy newborns, adults, and elderly persons were analyzed with statistical, chaos, and recurrence methods. In persons of all ages, RRI series showed relative stability (as expected in homeostatic regulation), patterned daily changes in heart rate, evidence of causality or 'determinism' (nonrandom pattern of the series of differences), and non-periodic irregular variations within limits, suggesting chaos.

The biotic pattern of heartbeat intervals.

The observed pattern of variation in heart rate indicates biotic patterns that change in time as portrayed by the variable morphology of recurrence plots (temporal complexity) as well as by diversification and novelty.

Bios data analyzer.

The Bios Data Analyzer (BDA) is a set of computer programs (CD-ROM, in Sabelli et al., Bios. A Study of Creation, 2005) for new time series analyses that detects and measures creative phenomena, namely diversification, novelty, complexes, nonrandom complexity.

Definition and empirical characterization of creative processes.

Creative processes exhibit a new, thus far unrecognized, form of dynamical behavior distinct from the known classes of mechanical and chaotic dynamics. We present quantitative methods of time series analysis that distinguish creative processes from random and chaotic systems. Creative processes exhibit diversification, indicating an expanding phase space volume, which contrasts with processes that converge to equilibrium, or to periodic or chaotic attractors.