Homeostasis, referring to the
balanced ability of a system to
maintain its own integrity and
functioning, is often associated with the ability of a system to maintain its own proper functioning. In a similar fashion, the term
malhomeostasis might be
considered to be the ability of a system to maintain itself in a state of improper balance or unhealthy functioning despite the best clinical efforts.
Chronic problems have a balance and stability of their own; and they persist despite the best efforts of clinicians to ameliorate them. In EEG neurotherapy the persistence and chronicity of problems can be tied to the malhomeostatic hypercoherence, or delicately balanced hypocoherence
patterns in the electrophysiology, the vascular patterns, and the neurochemistry.
Stepping back for a moment, there are easy problems, in which the systematic context of a problem can be ignored. However the more difficult problems we encounter bring with them the emeshed
systems of neuronal functioning which must be dealt with as systems, and as systems within systems -- whether we are talking about amplitude, variability, phase, or coherence patterns. And unless the effects of working at one placement on the head are considered in relation to other sites, then we are likely to see the durability of our interventions weaker than we would like.