ReviewTrends in neurosciences2018
Respiration-Entrained Brain Rhythms Are Global but Often Overlooked.
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172 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
- Effects of a 4-week combined breathing control and self-talk intervention on neural activity and coping skills in athletes: a randomized control trial.BMC psychology · 2026Trial
- Impact of combined high-intensity bodyweight interval training and breathing exercise on cardiometabolic health in normal-weight middle-aged adults with hypertension.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- No evidence for modulation of the readiness potential by respiratory phase during natural breathing.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- A nose-to-brain circuit underlies anxiety regulation by nasal afferent frequency in mice.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Categorization is 'baked' into the brain.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2026Review
- Spectral dependence as a framework for neural coordination.Current research in neurobiology · 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
- Homeostatic coupling of cortical and brainstem delta rhythms in sleeping infant rats.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- Slow Diaphragmatic Breathing for Chronic Migraine Prevention and Treatment: A Case Report.Reports (MDPI) · 2026Article
- Respiratory phase alignment across memory encoding and retrieval improves task efficiency.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Cycle-by-cycle respiration waveforms are coupled with the shape of neural oscillations.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Nasal and oral breathing modes reconfigure brain network dynamics between stabilizing integration and promoting fragmentation.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Heart rate and sleep history encode ultradian REM sleep timing.Current biology : CB · 2026Article
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- Respiratory and Cardiac Phase Coupling With Voluntary Actions Across Motor Tasks.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- 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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Abstract
We revisit recent evidence showing that nasal respiration entrains oscillations at the same frequency as breathing in several regions of the rodent brain. Moreover, respiration modulates the amplitude of a specific gamma sub-band (70-120Hz), most prominently in frontal regions. Since rodents often breathe at delta and theta frequencies, we caution that previous studies on delta and theta power and their cross-regional synchrony, as well as on delta-gamma and theta-gamma coupling, may have detected the respiration-entrained rhythm and respiration-gamma coupling. We argue that the simultaneous tracking of respiration along with electrophysiological recordings is necessary to properly identify brain oscillations. We hypothesize that respiration-entrained oscillations aid long-range communication in the brain.
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