Issue 2-84, 2018

Role of Decentralized Cooperative Networks (Dcns) in Restorative Medicine

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1 Oleskin A.V.

1 General Ecology Department, Biology School, Lomonosov Moscow State University


ABSTRACT

One of the main goals of restorative medicine is the actualization of the functional reserves of the human organismfor the purpose of improving the health state of people. This work aims to demonstrate that this important goal can beattained using interdisciplinary teams that include specialists in a number of different subfields of medicine. In structuralterms, such teams should represent decentralized cooperative networks (DCNs). It is emphasized that DCNs possessimportant advantages over more conventional hierarchical structures that are still widely used in the field of restorativemedicine. Nonetheless, DCNs cause their own problems that are also considered in this article. Special attention is givenin the article to the organizational diversity of DCNs. In this context, the article places emphasis upon seven organizationalpatterns (seven biological paradigms) that have been “invented” by biological evolution and can be efficiently employedin networks in human society, including those to be used for medical purposes. In the final section, a decentralizednetwork structure is suggested as a suitable organizational pattern for a new association of enthusiasts that deal withMicrobial Communication, Neurochemicals, and Probiotics, a currently popular interdisciplinary research area of directrelevance to restorative medicine.


KEYWORDS: restorative medicine, decentralized cooperative network structures, hierarchies, microbial communication, neurochemicals, probiotics


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