Anticipation and Medicine

1. Medicine: The Decisive Test of Anticipation
Mihai Nadin

Part I. Anticipation and Medical Care

2. A Conceptual Framework for Applying the Anticipatory Theory of Complex Systems to Improve Safety and Quality in Healthcare
Thomas O. Staiger, Patricia A. Kritek, Erin L. Blakeney, Brenda K. Zierler, Kurt O’Brien, Ross H. Ehrmantraut

3. Environment, Genes, and Mental Health
Hans Jörgen Grabe

4. The Anticipating Heart
Oleg Kubryak

Part II. Evaluating the Risk Factors and Opportunities of New Medical Procedures

5. Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine as the Medicine of the Future: Anticipatory Scientific Innovation and Advanced Medical Services
Olga Golubnitschaja, Vincenzo Costigliola

6. Next Generation Sequencing for Next Generation Diagnostics and Therapy
Marianna Garonzi, Cesare Centomo, Massimo Delledonne

Part III. Examining the Brain

7. Temporal Memory Traces as Anticipatory Mechanisms
Peter Cariani

8. Influence of the Cerebellum in Anticipation and Mental Disorders
Pascal Hilber

9. Anticipation and the Brain
Mihai Nadin

Part IV. Anticipation and Medical Data Processing

10. The Role of MHealth and Wearables for Anticipation in Medicine
Alice Ferng, Vishal Punwani, Shiv Gaglani

11. Coaching of Body Awareness Through an App-Guide: The HealthNavigator
Wilko Heuten, Hermie Hermens, Jan-Dirk Hoffmann, Monique Tabak, Janko Timmermann, Detlev Willemsen, Anke Workowski, Johannes Technau

Part V. Anticipation and Psychological Aspects of Patient Treatments

12. Anticipation and Child Development
Julie Brisson, Anne-Laure Sorin

13. Anticipation and the Neural Response to Threat
Nathaniel G. Harnett, Kimberly H. Wood, Muriah D. Wheelock, Amy J. Knight, David C. Knight

Part VI. Anticipation and Ubiquitous Computing

14. Smart Watches for Physiological Monitoring: A Case Study on Blood Pressure Measurement
Viswam Nathan, Simi Susan Thomas, Roozbeh Jafari

15. Anticipation Mobile Digital Health: Towards Personalized Proactive Therapies and Prevention Strategies
Veljko Pejovic, Abhinav Mehrotra, Mirco Musolesi

16. Intelligent Support for Surgeons in the Operating Room
Rainer Malaka, Frank Dylla, Christian Freksa, Thomas Barkowsky, Marc Herrlich, Ron Kikinis

Part VII. Anticipation and Alternative Medicine

17. Unorthodox Forms of Anticipation
Dean Radin

18. Anticipating Diabetes, Obesity and Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and Applying Integrative Techniques Using Functional and Oriental Medicine
Dagmar Ehling

19. Anticipating the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer: Screening Controversies and Warning Dreams
Larry Burk

20. Anticipation in Traditional Healing Ceremonies: The Call from Our Past
Thomas Schack, Ellen Schack

21. At the Meeting Point Between Anticipation and Chiropraxis
Jean Paul Pianta

22. Anticipation in Motion-Based Games for Health
Rainer Malaka, Marc Herrlich, Jan Smeddinck

Keywords: Engineering, Computational Intelligence, Mathematical Models of Cognitive Processes and Neural Networks, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)