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       The Book Index as a working map

Masticationpedia’s Book Index is not the table of contents of a finished book nor the final structure of a manual. It is a continuously evolving editorial and scientific working map.

The sections and chapters listed here do not represent a didactic pathway, but the points where clinical practice reveals fractures, anomalies, and paradigm limits that must be addressed without simplification.

“The Ψ Index is a clinical criterion, but it is born within a paradigm crisis: it does not only measure data, it reorganizes their interpretation.”

• Some chapters are complete, others partial; others are present as conceptual nodes.
• The order of the index is not final: it may change, be reorganized, or expanded.
• The Book Index does not contain final answers: it contains the conditions of their necessity.

       Sections and chapters evolve together with the project’s clinical and methodological work.

Normal Science

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Introduction

• Logic of medical language
  • The logic of classical language
  • The logic of the probabilistic
  • Fuzzy language logic
  • System logic
• The Complex Systems
• Logic of medical language: Introduction to quantum-like probability in the masticatory system
• Conclusions on the status quo in the logic of medical language regarding the masticatory system

Hemimasticatory spasm

• 1° Clinical case: Emimasticatory spasm
  • Encrypted code: Ephaptic transmission

Bruxism

• 2° Clinical case: Pineal Cavernoma
  • Encrypted code: Hyperexcitability of the trigeminal system

Occlusion and Posture

• 3° Clinical case: Meningioma
  • Encrypted code: Bilateral Motor Evoked Potentials of trigeminal root

Orofacial Pain

• 4° Clinical case: Temporomandibular disorders
  • 5° Clinical case: Spontaneous Electromyographic Activity

Are we sure to know everything?

• 6° Clinical case: Facial onset sensory and motor neuronopathy
  • 7° Clinical case: Brainstem neoplasm in Orofacial pain

Section closing

• Conclusion of the ‘Normal Science’ section

Paradigm Crisis

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Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC)

• Analysis of mandibular movements: Electrognathographic replicator
  • Transverse hinge axis
  • Asse Cerniera Verticale
  • The magic of the condylar sphere

Jaw movements analysis: Pantographic replicator

• Intercondylar distance
• Advantages and limits of pantography

Jaw movements analysis: Axiographic replicator

• Interfacial distance
• Advantages and limits of axiography

Electromyography (EMG)

• EMG interference pattern
• Resting EMG
• Quantitative EMG analysis
• Fourier transform
• Wavelets

Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation

• Intraocclusal free space
  • The mysterious “muscle tone”
• TENS closing trajectories

Beyond the RDC

• Clinical Electromyography
• Artificial Neural Networks: Automatic Neuromuscular Diagnostic

• Trigeminal neurophysiopathology
• Trigeminal Nociceptive Evaluation in TMD Patients by studying CO2-Laser Evoked Potentials and Masseter Laser Silent Periods
• Electrical and Magnetic Stimulation of the Central and Peripheral Nervous System:Modeling of Generated Fields and Data Interpretation
• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Brain Plasticity in Post-Stroke Recovery
• Pain pathophysiology
• Role of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors in Pain
• Neuronal Basis of Neuropathic Pain and Neuroprotective Mechanisms of Antiepileptic Drugs
• Use of functional MRI (fMRI) in pain research
• Neuroradiology in craniofacial pain

Section closing

• Conclusions of the paradigm crisis section

Ψ Index

When Normal Science fails: a clinical anomaly that opens the problem

PART I – LIMITS OF DESCRIPTION

Diagnosis as classification (RDC): describing is not inferring

Levels of clinical observation: a change in the scale of information

PART II – LIMITS OF CLASSICAL MEASUREMENT

Crisis of the absolute value: instability of the clinical number

Non-commutative variables in clinical practice: the order of information matters

PART III – FROM DATA TO STATE

System symmetry and stability : relation as information

System states : possible clinical configurations

PART IV – BEYOND THE NUMBER

The clinical state is not a number: the limit of the scalar

Clinical phase and encrypted signal : non-evident information

Artificial intelligence as a phase operator: NCN and semantic analysis

PART V – LIMITS OF CLASSICAL PROBABILITY

The limit of classical Bayes: probability without state

Quantum-like statistics: informational interference

PART VI – THE NEW CRITERION

From criterion to state index : inferring instead of classifying

Ψ Index: magnitude and phase of the clinical state

PART VI – TOWARD EXTRAORDINARY SCIENCE

The ⟨Ψ⟩ Index as a diagnostic operator: the role of the ⟨Ψ⟩ Index in complex systems

• General architecture of the model
• Separation between Structural Connectivity (SC) and Functional Connectivity (FC)
• Electrophysiological data as clinical observables
• Signal normalization and construction of relative value
• Magnitude of the Ψ Index as a measure of system symmetry
• Introduction to the concept of phase of the Ψ state
• Superposition of clinical states and role of the cosine of Ψ
• Emergent behavior of the system
• Quantum-like inference and overcoming descriptive classification