4 papers
Substance Abuse via Legally Prescribed Drugs: The Case of Vicodin in the United States
Wendy K. Caldwell, Benjamin Freedman, Luke Settles +4
Vicodin is the most commonly prescribed pain reliever in the United States. Research indicates that there are two million people who are currently abusing Vicodin, and the majority…
Tracing the Progression of Retinitis Pigmentosa via Photoreceptor Interactions
Erika T. Camacho, Stephen Wirkus
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a group of inherited degenerative eye diseases characterized by mutations in the genetic structure of the photoreceptors that leads to the premature de…
A Mechanism for Stabilization of Dynamics in Nonlinear Systems with Different Time Scales
Raquel M. Lopez, Sergei K. Suslov, Erika T. Camacho
There are many natural, physical, and biological systems that exhibit multiple time scales. For example, the dynamics of a population of ticks can be described in continuous time d…
Traveling wave solutions of Fitzhugh model with cross-diffusion
F. Berezovskaya, E. Camacho, S. Wirkus +1
The Fitzhugh-Nagumo equations have been used as a caricature of the Hodgkin-Huxley equations of neuron firing to better understand the essential dynamics of the interaction of the…