Neurodynamical Control of the Heart of Healthy and Dying Crustacean Animals

We analyzed the heartbeat-interval recorded from crustacean animals, using detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) and delayed-time embedding method. EKG was obtained from freely moving animals in normal condition and then in terminal condition; we kept recording until the life was coming to an end. Our experimental purpose was to know whether DFA and embedding methods characterize quantitatively conditions of the cardiac control network, either in the brain or in the heart, or both, the brain and heart. We concluded that DFA exponents represent whether the subjects are under sick or healthy conditions. Here we show how the controller conditions of the brain changed and how pacemaker neural network in the heart deteriorated from time to time. This report demonstrates relationship between DFA and electro-physiological of the heart.