Key result
Respiratory modulation of neuronal activity may link respiratory abnormalities to cognitive and affective deficits.
Why the study?
Respiration modulates sensory, affective, and cognitive processes via neural oscillations, but whether these findings inform the understanding of disorders associated with abnormal respiration required synthesis.
This review highlights the role of respiratory modulation of neural oscillations in cognitive and affective processes, offering potential insights into disorders with respiratory abnormalities.
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Respiration may shape cognition via neural oscillations; leaves open whether this informs mechanisms or treatment of affective disorders.
Over the past six years, a rapidly growing number of studies have shown that respiration exerts a significant influence on sensory, affective, and cognitive processes. At the same time, an increasing amount of experimental evidence indicates that this influence occurs via modulation of neural oscillations and their synchronization between brain areas. In this article, we review the relevant findings and discuss whether they might inform our understanding of a variety of disorders that have been associated with abnormal patterns of respiration. We review literature on the role of respiration in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), anxiety (panic attacks), and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and we conclude that the new insights into respiratory modulation of neuronal activity may help understand the relationship between respiratory abnormalities and cognitive and affective deficits.
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Heck et al. (2022) conducted a review in Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), anxiety, and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Respiratory modulation of brain activity was evaluated. Respiratory modulation of neuronal activity may help understand the relationship between respiratory abnormalities and cognitive and affective deficits in disorders like COPD, anxiety, and ASD.
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