Abstract: "Brain venous haemodynamics, neurological diseases and mathematical modelling." Recently published in Applied Mathematics and Computation http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0096300315008474
" I start with a description of several idiopathic brain pathologies that appear to have a strong vascular dimension, of which the most prominent example considered here is multiple sclerosis, the most common neurodegenerative, disabling disease in young adults. Other pathologies surveyed here include retinal abnormalities, Transient Global Amnesia, Transient Monocular Blindness, Ménière’s disease and Idiopathic Parkinson’s disease. It is the hypothesised vascular aspect of these conditions that links medicine to mathematics, through fluid mechanics in very complex networks of moving boundary blood vessels. The second part of this paper is about mathematical modelling of the human cardiovascular system, with particular reference to the venous system and the brain."

Behind Medicine (M) is Physiology (P), behind Physiology is Physics (P) and behind Physics is always Mathematics (M), for which I expect that the symmetry of the quadruplet MPPM will be compatible with the characteristic bias of hyperbolic partial differential equations, a theme of this paper. I sta…