ReviewJournal of neurophysiology2019
The rhythm of memory: how breathing shapes memory function.
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68 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 144 citations in OpenAlex.
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- The Mind From Within: Visceral Roots of Human Cognition.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Human forebrain neural synchronization and entrainment to breathing during wakefulness, sleep, and external mechanical ventilation.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Exploring Linalool-Based Phytotherapy for Excitatory/Inhibitory Imbalance in Alzheimer's Disease: A Review of Lavender and Cannabis Therapeutic Effects on Sleep, Seizures, and Cognition.Phytotherapy research : PTR · 2026Review
- 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
- Respiration Shapes the Neural Dynamics of Successful Remembering in Humans.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Disruption of Pre-Bötzinger Complex neuropeptidergic tonality controls fear and metabolic response.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Breathwork for Chronic Stress and Mental Health: Does Choosing a Specific Technique Matter?Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Global coordination of brain activity by the breathing cycle.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Smells like … no evidence that odors influence the attentional blink.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Psychedelic-Induced Neural Plasticity: A Comprehensive Review and a Discussion of Clinical Implications.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Opposing expression pattern of opsin 3 and opsin 5 in the developing and adult nasal epithelium.Chemical senses · 2025Article
- Prefrontal cortex synchronization with the hippocampus and parietal cortex is strategy-dependent during spatial learning.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Arousal and sustained attention fluctuate differently with respiration in younger and older adults.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Disembodied neurorights? Reconsidering mental integrity and personal identity in memory modification.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Breathing orchestrates synchronization of sleep oscillations in the human hippocampus.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Nasal obstruction during development leads to defective synapse elimination, hypersynchrony, and impaired cerebellar function.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Dynamic mechanisms that couple the brain and breathing to the external environment.Communications biology · 2024Review
- Wireless monitoring of respiration with EEG reveals relationships between respiration, behavior, and brain activity in freely moving mice.Journal of neurophysiology · 2024Article
- Coincident development and synchronization of sleep-dependent delta in the cortex and medulla.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
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Abstract
The mammalian olfactory bulb displays a prominent respiratory rhythm, which is linked to the sniff cycle and is driven by sensory input from olfactory receptors in the nasal sensory epithelium. In rats and mice, respiratory frequencies occupy the same band as the hippocampal θ-rhythm, which has been shown to be a key player in memory processes. Hippocampal and olfactory bulb rhythms were previously found to be uncorrelated except in specific odor-contingency learning circumstances. However, many recent electrophysiological studies in both rodents and humans reveal a surprising cycle-by-cycle influence of nasal respiration on neuronal activity throughout much of the cerebral cortex beyond the olfactory system, including the prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, and subcortical structures. In addition, respiratory phase has been shown to influence higher-frequency oscillations associated with cognitive functions, including attention and memory, such as the power of γ-rhythms and the timing of hippocampal sharp wave ripples. These new findings support respiration's role in cognitive function, which is supported by studies in human subjects, in which nasal respiration has been linked to memory processes. Here, we review recent reports from human and rodent experiments that link respiration to the modulation of memory function and the neurophysiological processes involved in memory in rodents and humans. We argue that respiratory influence on the neuronal activity of two key memory structures, the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, provides a potential neuronal mechanism behind respiratory modulation of memory.
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