An optimization formulation for characterization of pulsatile cortisol secretion
Cortisol is released to relay information to cells to regulate metabolism and reaction to stress and inflammation. In particular, cortisol is released in the form of pulsatile signals. This low-energy method of signaling seems to be more efficient than continuous signaling. We hypothesize that there...
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| description | Cortisol is released to relay information to cells to regulate metabolism and reaction to stress and inflammation. In particular, cortisol is released in the form of pulsatile signals. This low-energy method of signaling seems to be more efficient than continuous signaling. We hypothesize that there is a controller in the anterior pituitary that leads to pulsatile release of cortisol, and propose a mathematical formulation for such controller, which leads to impulse control as opposed to continuous control. We postulate that this controller is minimizing the number of secretory events that result in cortisol secretion, which is a way of minimizing the energy required for cortisol secretion; this controller maintains the blood cortisol levels within a specific circadian range while complying with the first order dynamics underlying cortisol secretion. We use an ℓ[subscript 0]-norm cost function for this controller, and solve a reweighed ℓ[subscript 1[-norm minimization algorithm for obtaining the solution to this optimization problem. We use four examples to illustrate the performance of this approach: (i) a toy problem that achieves impulse control, (ii) two examples that achieve physiologically plausible pulsatile cortisol release, (iii) an example where the number of pulses is not within the physiologically plausible range for healthy subjects while the cortisol levels are within the desired range. This novel approach results in impulse control where the impulses and the obtained blood cortisol levels have a circadian rhythm and an ultradian rhythm that are in agreement with the known physiology of cortisol secretion. The proposed formulation is a first step in developing intermittent controllers for curing cortisol deficiency. This type of bio-inspired pulse controllers can be employed for designing non-continuous controllers in brain-machine interface design for neuroscience applications. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1010852022-09-28T13:21:14Z An optimization formulation for characterization of pulsatile cortisol secretion Dahleh, Munther A. Brown, Emery N. Faghih, Rose MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society Institute for Medical Engineering and Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Picower Institute for Learning and Memory Faghih, Rose Dahleh, Munther A. Brown, Emery N. Cortisol is released to relay information to cells to regulate metabolism and reaction to stress and inflammation. In particular, cortisol is released in the form of pulsatile signals. This low-energy method of signaling seems to be more efficient than continuous signaling. We hypothesize that there is a controller in the anterior pituitary that leads to pulsatile release of cortisol, and propose a mathematical formulation for such controller, which leads to impulse control as opposed to continuous control. We postulate that this controller is minimizing the number of secretory events that result in cortisol secretion, which is a way of minimizing the energy required for cortisol secretion; this controller maintains the blood cortisol levels within a specific circadian range while complying with the first order dynamics underlying cortisol secretion. We use an ℓ[subscript 0]-norm cost function for this controller, and solve a reweighed ℓ[subscript 1[-norm minimization algorithm for obtaining the solution to this optimization problem. We use four examples to illustrate the performance of this approach: (i) a toy problem that achieves impulse control, (ii) two examples that achieve physiologically plausible pulsatile cortisol release, (iii) an example where the number of pulses is not within the physiologically plausible range for healthy subjects while the cortisol levels are within the desired range. This novel approach results in impulse control where the impulses and the obtained blood cortisol levels have a circadian rhythm and an ultradian rhythm that are in agreement with the known physiology of cortisol secretion. The proposed formulation is a first step in developing intermittent controllers for curing cortisol deficiency. This type of bio-inspired pulse controllers can be employed for designing non-continuous controllers in brain-machine interface design for neuroscience applications. National Science Foundation (U.S.). Graduate Research Fellowship National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (DP1 OD003646) National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (1-R01-GM104948-03) National Science Foundation (U.S.) (0836720) National Science Foundation (U.S.) (EFRI-0735956) 2016-02-03T18:42:31Z 2016-02-03T18:42:31Z 2015-08 2015-03 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1662-453X 1662-4548 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101085 Faghih, Rose T., Munther A. Dahleh, and Emery N. Brown. “An Optimization Formulation for Characterization of Pulsatile Cortisol Secretion.” Frontiers in Neuroscience 9 (August 11, 2015). https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2668-7819 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1470-2148 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9959-8422 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2015.00228 Frontiers in Neuroscience Creative Commons Attribution http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Frontiers Research Foundation Frontiers Research Foundation |
| spellingShingle | Dahleh, Munther A. Brown, Emery N. Faghih, Rose An optimization formulation for characterization of pulsatile cortisol secretion |
| title | An optimization formulation for characterization of pulsatile cortisol secretion |
| title_full | An optimization formulation for characterization of pulsatile cortisol secretion |
| title_fullStr | An optimization formulation for characterization of pulsatile cortisol secretion |
| title_full_unstemmed | An optimization formulation for characterization of pulsatile cortisol secretion |
| title_short | An optimization formulation for characterization of pulsatile cortisol secretion |
| title_sort | optimization formulation for characterization of pulsatile cortisol secretion |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101085 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2668-7819 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1470-2148 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9959-8422 |
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