Nasal airflow and brain activity: is there a link?

Price, Alice; Eccles, Ronald

doi:10.1017/s0022215116008537

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“…However, findings have not been consistent in this regard and the mechanism is not clear yet. The cyclical alteration in airflow dominance between the right and left nostrils (also called as nasal cycle ) associated with lateralized rhythms in autonomic activity is proposed as a possible mechanism in this regard (Price & Eccles, 2016; Shannahoff‐Khalsa, 1991), though definitive evidence confirming this is lacking.…”

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Psychophysiological responses to various slow, deep breathing techniques

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Deep breathing exercises are commonly used for several health conditions including pain and hypertension. Various techniques are available to practice deep breathing, whereas possible differential psychophysiological effects have not been investigated. We compared four deep breathing techniques and examined outcomes in blood pressure variability, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, baroreflex function, and emotional state. Healthy adult volunteers performed pursed‐lips breathing, left and right unilateral nostril breathing, and deep breathing with an inspiratory threshold load (loaded breathing), all at a frequency of 0.1 Hz (i.e., controlled breathing) and for three minutes each. Results showed that blood pressure variability was higher during loaded breathing versus other conditions and higher during pursed‐lips breathing versus left and right unilateral nostril breathing. Respiratory sinus arrhythmia was higher during loaded breathing versus other conditions and higher during pursed‐lips breathing versus left unilateral nostril breathing. The effect of breathing condition on respiratory sinus arrhythmia was mediated by alterations in blood pressure variability. There was no difference between the breathing conditions in baroreflex sensitivity or effectiveness. Participants rated pursed‐lips breathing as more calming and pleasant and with more sense of control (vs. other conditions). Overall, among the four tested deep breathing techniques, loaded breathing was associated with enhanced cardiovascular effects and pursed‐lips breathing with better emotional responses, while also enhancing cardiovascular effects (albeit less than loaded breathing). These findings can be informative in applying deep breathing techniques as self‐management interventions for health conditions, in which baroreceptors stimulation and autonomic and emotional modulations can be beneficial, such as pain and hypertension.

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“…1 In the latest of a recent series of articles on nasal airflow in The Journal of Laryngology & Otology, Price et al challenge a previously held view concerning a relationship between hand dominance and nasal airflow laterality. [2][3][4] In this most recent study, no correlation between nasal airflow dominance and handedness was identified. 2 Their results argue against the existence of a dominant nasal passage.…”

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The nasal cycle 122 years on – are we any wiser?

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Fisher³

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J. Laryngol. Otol.

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“…My focus was on: (a) existing evidence from lesion, inactivation, imaging and EEG studies, as well as repetitive TMS (rTMS) treatment studies, for hemispheric asymmetries of mood and mood disorders (for citations see Pettigrew & Miller, 1998; see also endnote 16) and (b) a little‐known existing literature on ultradian rhythms of alternating cerebral activation, evidenced centrally by alternating asymmetries in scalp prefrontal EEG, and peripherally by alternating asymmetries of nasal patency (the nasal cycle). Indeed, the latter literature had already proposed the existence of a ~90‐minute IHS in animals and humans (reviewed in Shannahoff‐Khalsa, 1993; see also Price & Eccles, 2016), well predating our search. Appealing to all of these sources, we proposed the sticky interhemispheric switch model of BD (or sticky switch model, for short).…”

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“…21 Although speculative, from my discussions and observations with mood disorder and healthy subjects, I would expect that in addition to subtle ultradian (hours-long) positive/negative IHS mood rhythms, there will exist a 2-3 day infradian positive/negative IHS mood rhythm (with potentially wide individual variation therein). Just as the hypothalamic-driven ultradian nasal cycle IHS appears to exist in the majority of, but not all, subjects (Kahana-Zweig et al, 2016;Lenz, Teelen, & Eichler, 1985;Price & Eccles, 2016), so too moodrelated ultradian and infradian IHS rhythms may not exist in all subjects. Nonetheless, the hours-long and days-long timeframes accord with descriptions of mood shifts in patients and healthy subjects, and ultradian and infradian positive/negative mood rhythms at their extremities, driven by endogenous oscillators, could provide new insight on mechanisms underlying mixed states, ultra-rapid cycling, and ultradian cycling in BD (Blum et al, 2014;Kramlinger & Post, 1996;MacKinnon & Pies, 2006).…”

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Fluctuations of consciousness, mood, and science: The interhemispheric switch and sticky switch models two decades on

Miller

2020

J of Comparative Neurology

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Science and medicine aim to identify verifiable and replicable truths. However, the paths to such truths are frequently characterized by swinging pendulums of opposing perspectives. This is especially so in human neuroscience and the brain-based clinical sciences, where the target of investigation is the most complex of all biological systems. This article overviews a set of interrelated neuroscientific and clinical hypotheses, models, experiments, and predictions with which I have been involved for the last two decades. Traversing visual neuroscience, consciousness science, genetics, chronobiology, and biological and clinical psychiatry, the work illustrates how developments in science and medicine can occur through a combination of synthesis, serendipity, and experimentation. The article also reflects on doing science with the inimitable John "Jack" Pettigrew, and outlines how Pettigrew and I conceived, proposed, tested, and developed two new scientific models-one on neural mechanisms of binocular rivalry, the other on the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder. I also provide an update on various aspects of our models and data, and describe lessons learned from Pettigrew on how perspectives in science exhibit their own fluctuations, ironically like the very phenomena on which we worked.

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Nasal airflow and brain activity: is there a link?

Abstract: This article explores these theories in detail, reviews the evidence, and presents new models linking nasal airflow and brain activity.

Cited by 27 publications

References 56 publications

Psychophysiological responses to various slow, deep breathing techniques

Psychophysiological responses to various slow, deep breathing techniques

The nasal cycle 122 years on – are we any wiser?

Fluctuations of consciousness, mood, and science: The interhemispheric switch and sticky switch models two decades on

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