https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index en-au 5 The trajectory of life. Decreasing physiological network complexity through changing fractal patterns https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:27834 Wed 11 Apr 2018 18:16:09 AEST ]]> Health and disease: Emergent states resulting from adaptive social and biological network interactions https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:35915 Thu 16 Jan 2020 15:10:09 AEDT ]]> 'Multimorbidity' as the manifestation of network disturbances https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:32646 within an individual in his or her socio-cultural environment. Networks include genomic, metabolomic, proteomic, neuroendocrine, immune and mitochondrial bioenergetic elements, as well as social, environmental and health care networks. Stress systems and other physiological mechanisms create feedback loops that integrate and regulate internal networks within the individual. Minor (e.g. daily hassles) and major (e.g. trauma) stressful life experiences perturb internal and social networks resulting in physiological instability with changes ranging from improved resilience to unhealthy adaptation and 'clinical disease'. Understanding 'multimorbidity' as a complex adaptive systems response to biobehavioural and socio-environmental networks is essential. Thus, designing integrative care delivery approaches that more adequately address the underlying disease processes as the manifestation of a state of physiological dysregulation is essential. This framework can shape care delivery approaches to meet the individual's care needs in the context of his or her underlying illness experience. It recognizes 'multimorbidity' and its symptoms as the end product of complex physiological processes, namely, stress activation and mitochondrial energetics, and suggests new opportunities for treatment and prevention. The future of 'multimorbidity' management might become much more discerning by combining the balancing of physiological dysregulation with targeted personalized biotechnology interventions such as small molecule therapeutics targeting specific cellular components of the stress response, with community-embedded interventions that involve addressing psycho-socio-cultural impediments that would aim to strengthen personal/social resilience and enhance social capital.]]> Mon 02 Jul 2018 16:18:12 AEST ]]>