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Transdisciplinary precision medicine approaches to breath-focused mind-body therapies are needed to characterize biomarkers and develop more effective treatments for stress and anxiety.
Mechanistic research on the neurobiology of breathing is needed to develop effective, mechanism-based mind-body therapies for stress and anxiety.
In this viewpoint, we present an argument for transdisciplinary "precision medicine" approaches that combine studies of basic neurobiology of breathing in animal and human models of stress that can help characterize physiological and neural biomarkers and mechanisms of breathing control and emotion regulation in humans. Such mechanistic research is fundamental for the development of more effective and mechanism-based mind-body therapies. The potential for this research to positively impact public health is high, as breathing techniques are inexpensive, accessible, and cross-culturally accepted, with fewer complications then observed with other standard therapies for stress-related disorders.
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Lavretsky et al. (2021) conducted an editorial in Stress and anxiety. Breath-focused mind-body therapies was evaluated. Transdisciplinary precision medicine approaches to breath-focused mind-body therapies are needed to characterize biomarkers and develop more effective treatments for stress and anxiety.
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