ReviewFrontiers in neural circuits2016
Breathing as a Fundamental Rhythm of Brain Function.
Review in Frontiers in neural circuits, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 118 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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118 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- From Lung to Brain: Respiration Modulates Neural and Mental Activity.Neuroscience bulletin · 2023Pooled it
- Inconclusive evidence that breathing shapes pupil dynamics in humans: a systematic review.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2023Pooled it
- The multimodal neurophysiological assessment of immediate LiuZiJue: revealing executive control and brain function changes.Frontiers in neurology · 2026Trial
- Impact of Increased Respiratory Load on Prefrontal Cortical Activation Under Varying Task Complexities of Trail Walking Task.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Broca's area, responsible for speech production, is regulated by lung function.Neural regeneration research · 2026Article
- Spontaneous perceptual reversals are accompanied by systematic changes in pupil size but not respiration phase.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Human forebrain neural synchronization and entrainment to breathing during wakefulness, sleep, and external mechanical ventilation.Nature communications · 2026Article
- A reversible rat model of hyposmia affects respiration-linked brain oscillations and behavior.iScience · 2026Article
- Slow Diaphragmatic Breathing for Chronic Migraine Prevention and Treatment: A Case Report.Reports (MDPI) · 2026Article
- Nasal and oral breathing modes reconfigure brain network dynamics between stabilizing integration and promoting fragmentation.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Visualizing and sonifying neurodata (ViSoND) for enhanced observation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Know Your Nose: A Narrative Review of the Developmental and Functional Impact and Importance of the Nose, Nasal Breathing and Techniques on Health and Emotional Wellbeing.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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- Respiration Shapes the Neural Dynamics of Successful Remembering in Humans.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
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- I sync, therefore I am: brain-body synchrony in typical and disordered consciousness.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Review
- Rapid Nasal Breathing as a Biometric Trigger: High-Accuracy Electroencephalogram-Based Authentication for Clinical Applications.The clinical respiratory journal · 2026Article
- Autonomic indicators of self-transcendence: insights from the numadelic VR paradigm.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- Challenges and lessons learned in attempts to develop in vitro models for ultrasound neuromodulation using local field potential measurements in hippocampal tissue.Biophysical journal · 2025Article
- The effects of unilateral nostril breathing on brain functional network activity: a pilot study.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2025Article
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Abstract
Ongoing fluctuations of neuronal activity have long been considered intrinsic noise that introduces unavoidable and unwanted variability into neuronal processing, which the brain eliminates by averaging across population activity (Georgopoulos et al., 1986; Lee et al., 1988; Shadlen and Newsome, 1994; Maynard et al., 1999). It is now understood, that the seemingly random fluctuations of cortical activity form highly structured patterns, including oscillations at various frequencies, that modulate evoked neuronal responses (Arieli et al., 1996; Poulet and Petersen, 2008; He, 2013) and affect sensory perception (Linkenkaer-Hansen et al., 2004; Boly et al., 2007; Sadaghiani et al., 2009; Vinnik et al., 2012; Palva et al., 2013). Ongoing cortical activity is driven by proprioceptive and interoceptive inputs. In addition, it is partially intrinsically generated in which case it may be related to mental processes (Fox and Raichle, 2007; Deco et al., 2011). Here we argue that respiration, via multiple sensory pathways, contributes a rhythmic component to the ongoing cortical activity. We suggest that this rhythmic activity modulates the temporal organization of cortical neurodynamics, thereby linking higher cortical functions to the process of breathing.
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