Exploring the Benefits of Unilateral Nostril Breathing Practice Post-Stroke: Attention, Language, Spatial Abilities, Depression, and Anxiety

Shisler, MarshallRebecca; BasilakosAlexandra,; WilliamsTiffany,; Love-MyersKim,

doi:10.1089/acm.2013.0019

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“…As a non-pharmaceutical treatment, breathing control therapy is now wildly used in dealing with depression (Tsang et al, 2006), PTSD (Descilo et al, 2010), insomnia (Manjunath and Telles, 2005), and other relevant mental disorders (Brown and Gerbarg, 2005a). It is also applied as an adjuvant treatment for patients with physical disorders, including stroke (Marshall et al, 2014) and cancer (Hayama and Inoue, 2012). All these lines of evidence confirmed the efficacy of diaphragmatic breathing in clinical conditions, but we have shown its benefit for healthy individuals.…”

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The Effect of Diaphragmatic Breathing on Attention, Negative Affect and Stress in Healthy Adults

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A growing number of empirical studies have revealed that diaphragmatic breathing may trigger body relaxation responses and benefit both physical and mental health. However, the specific benefits of diaphragmatic breathing on mental health remain largely unknown. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of diaphragmatic breathing on cognition, affect, and cortisol responses to stress. Forty participants were randomly assigned to either a breathing intervention group (BIG) or a control group (CG). The BIG received intensive training for 20 sessions, implemented over 8 weeks, employing a real-time feedback device, and an average respiratory rate of 4 breaths/min, while the CG did not receive this treatment. All participants completed pre- and post-tests of sustained attention and affect. Additionally, pre-test and post-test salivary cortisol concentrations were determined in both groups. The findings suggested that the BIG showed a significant decrease in negative affect after intervention, compared to baseline. In the diaphragmatic breathing condition, there was a significant interaction effect of group by time on sustained attention, whereby the BIG showed significantly increased sustained attention after training, compared to baseline. There was a significant interaction effect of group and time in the diaphragmatic breathing condition on cortisol levels, whereby the BIG had a significantly lower cortisol level after training, while the CG showed no significant change in cortisol levels. In conclusion, diaphragmatic breathing could improve sustained attention, affect, and cortisol levels. This study provided evidence demonstrating the effect of diaphragmatic breathing, a mind-body practice, on mental function, from a health psychology approach, which has important implications for health promotion in healthy individuals.

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“…Both techniques have shown reductions in stress, anxiety, and/or depression symptoms in several studies (Bhimani et al 2011;Brown and Gerbarg 2005a;Marshall et al 2013). SKY breathing is a technique involving breathing cycles ranging from slow, calming breathing to fast, stimulating breathing (Zope and Zope 2013).…”

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Self-Regulation of Breathing as a Primary Treatment for Anxiety

Jerath¹,

Crawford²,

Barnes

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Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback

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Understanding the autonomic nervous system and homeostatic changes associated with emotions remains a major challenge for neuroscientists and a fundamental prerequisite to treat anxiety, stress, and emotional disorders. Based on recent publications, the inter-relationship between respiration and emotions and the influence of respiration on autonomic changes, and subsequent widespread membrane potential changes resulting from changes in homeostasis are discussed. We hypothesize that reversing homeostatic alterations with meditation and breathing techniques rather than targeting neurotransmitters with medication may be a superior method to address the whole body changes that occur in stress, anxiety, and depression. Detrimental effects of stress, negative emotions, and sympathetic dominance of the autonomic nervous system have been shown to be counteracted by different forms of meditation, relaxation, and breathing techniques. We propose that these breathing techniques could be used as firstline and supplemental treatments for stress, anxiety, depression, and some emotional disorders.

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“…4,42 The current study used the standard attention test (CTT) to capture change in attention. However, previous studies used the Connors Continuous Performance Test (CPT-II).…”

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“…2,3 The use of altered breathing patterns in pranayama to change cognition and language in those living with aphasia is understudied. 4 Aphasia is a communication disorder characterized by linguistic and attention impairments. [5][6][7][8][9][10][11] If yogic breathing techniques prove to be beneficial for reducing aphasic impairments, the approach would offer adults with aphasia a no-cost intervention with considerable flexibility (i.e., used at any place and at any time).…”

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Unilateral Forced Nostril Breathing and Aphasia—Exploring Unilateral Forced Nostril Breathing as an Adjunct to Aphasia Treatment: A Case Series

Marshall

Laures‐Gore

DuBay

et al. 2015

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

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Exploring the Benefits of Unilateral Nostril Breathing Practice Post-Stroke: Attention, Language, Spatial Abilities, Depression, and Anxiety

Abstract: Significant findings for language and affect measures indicate that further investigation regarding duration of UNB treatment and use of UNB treatment alongside traditional speech-language therapy in post-stroke individuals is warranted.

Cited by 38 publications

References 37 publications

The Effect of Diaphragmatic Breathing on Attention, Negative Affect and Stress in Healthy Adults

The Effect of Diaphragmatic Breathing on Attention, Negative Affect and Stress in Healthy Adults

Self-Regulation of Breathing as a Primary Treatment for Anxiety

Unilateral Forced Nostril Breathing and Aphasia—Exploring Unilateral Forced Nostril Breathing as an Adjunct to Aphasia Treatment: A Case Series

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