Volume 2 No 1 (2004)
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Brain neurons as quantum computers: (it in vivo) support of background physics physics
A. Bershadskii, E. Dremencov, J. Bershadskii, G. Yadid
Abstract
he question: whether quantum coherent states can sustain decoherence, heating and dissipation
over time scales comparable to the dynamical timescales of the brain neurons, is actively discussed in
the last years. Positive answer on this question is crucial, in particular, for consideration of brain
neurons as quantum computers. This discussion was mainly based on theoretical arguments. In
present paper nonlinear statistical properties of the Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA) of genetically
depressive limbic brain are studied {\it in vivo} on the Flinders Sensitive Line of rats (FSL). VTA plays a
key role in generation of pleasure and in development of psychological drug addiction. We found that
the FSL VTA (dopaminergic) neuron signals exhibit multifractal properties for interspike frequencies
on the scales where healthy VTA dopaminergic neurons exhibit bursting activity. For high moments
the observed multifractal (generalized dimensions) spectrum coincides with the generalized
dimensions spectrum calculated for a spectral measure of a {it quantum} system (so-called kicked
Harper model, actively used as a model of quantum chaos). This observation can be considered as a
first experimental (it in vivo) indication in the favour of the quantum (at least partially) nature of the
brain neurons activity
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