What's the link between epileptic seizures and earthquakes, basic and applied research?
A recent preprint describes two kinds of phenomena in terms of coupled threshold oscillators - earthquakes and epileptic seizures. It turns out that methods developed for earthquake prediction may become useful in predicting seizures:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3929 .
Besides, it may be a good starting point to discuss the interdisciplinary aspects of basic and applied research, e.g. how to write or to review grant proposals on cross-disciplinary topics.
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Earthquakes may hold clues
By waris AliEarthquakes may hold clues for treatment of epilepsy:
TECHNIQUES for forecasting earthquakes could also be used to predict when epilepsy sufferers will have fits, researchers have found.
for further informantion see the given website http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jan/10/neuroscience.medic...
The guardian article is
By danielThe guardian article is about the above-mentioned preprint (by Ivan Osorio) posted on arxiv.org .
Plate Tectonics, the Cause
By Abdul Waheed KandhroPlate Tectonics, the Cause of Earthquakes
The plates consist of an outer layer of the Earth, the lithosphere, which is cool enough to behave as a more or less rigid shell. Occasionally the hot asthenosphere of the Earth finds a weak place in the lithosphere to rise buoyantly as a plume, or hotspot. The satellite image below shows the volcanic islands of the Galapagos hotspot.
http://www.seismo.unr.edu
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