
The complex and changing landscape from brain dynamics has received a huge research over the last twenty years. Recently, a novel mathematical approach based on dynamical system theory has been introduced to describe human consciousness. It is associated to structures, of informational nature, related to the existence of flows of global attractors. Indeed, these Informational Structures can be fully described from a topological and geometrical point of view as a flow of time-dependent Morse-Smale attractors. This fact allows to define some measures on the attractors serving as biomarkers of consciousness states. To this aim, we will revisit the concept of the global attractor as a whole transformation of the phase space leading to an informational landscape.
In this seminar we will also make an important step forwards by evaluating this theoretical approach for different levels of consciousness from real subjects in resting, unresponsiveness and coma states.