Breathing Practices for Treatment of Psychiatric and Stress-Related Medical Conditions

Favouring emotional processing in improvisational music therapy through resonance frequency breathing: a single-case experimental study with a healthy client

“…One of the oldest example would be the Indian practice of pranayama yoga and its well-documented effect on autonomic functioning (Jerath, Edry, Barnes, & Jerath, 2006;Pal, Velkumary, & Madanmohan, 2004). But breathing techniques have also become increasingly popular in the West, as can be seen by their growing use for the treatment of various emotional and stress-related disorders (Brown, Gerbarg, & Muench, 2013). Furthermore, music therapists are already familiar with certain breathing interventions, meaning that the introduction of a new method should not pose any conceptual or practical problem.…”

The Integrative Role of the Sigh in Psychology, Physiology, Pathology, and Neurobiology

“…Constant worrying and chronic anxiety may also lead to insomnia as frequent arousals may contribute to sleep fragmentation. Anxiety and insomnia are closely related clinical entities (Brown et al, 2013; Dong et al, 2013; Lee et al, 2013). This relationship could be associated with an increased propensity to sigh, a possibility that deserves further investigations.…”

A blunted sympathetic and accentuated parasympathetic response to postural change in subjects with depressive disorders

“…All the QRS complexes were detected by Matlab (Matlab2007a) program, and the RRI time series were obtained. For maximum precision in measurement of the RRI data, artifacts were automatically detected using the following criteria: RRI o350 ms or RRI4 1500 ms (Barry et al, 1991;Brown et al, 2013). For calculation of the spectral indices we used the HRV Analysis software (Kubios HRV v.1.1 for Windows, Biomedical Signal Analysis Standard).…”