Interictal cardiorespiratory variability in temporal lobe and XXXX in childhood.

@entity410 @entity302 @entity2048
UNASSIGNED: It is well known that @entity302 has a profound effect on the autonomic nervous system, especially on the autonomic control of heart rate and respiration. This effect has been widely studied during @entity410 activity, but less attention has been given to interictal (i.e. @entity410 -free) activity. The studies that have been done on this topic, showed that heart rate and respiration can be affected individually, even without the occurrence of @entity410 . In this work, the interactions between these two individual physiological variables are analysed during interictal activity in temporal lobe and @entity2048 in childhood. These interactions are assessed by decomposing the predictive information about heart rate variability, into different components like the transfer entropy, cross-entropy, self- entropy and the conditional self entropy. Each one of these components quantifies different types of shared information. However, when using the cross-entropy and the conditional self entropy, it is possible to split the information carried by the heart rate, into two main components, one related to respiration and one related to different mechanisms, like sympathetic activation. This can be done after assuming a directional link going from respiration to heart rate. After analysing all the entropy components, it is shown that in subjects with @entity2048 the information shared by respiration and heart rate is significantly lower than for normal subjects. And a more remarkable finding indicates that this type of @entity302 seems to have a long term effect on the cardiac and respiratory control mechanisms of the autonomic nervous system.
