The effects of sighing on the cardiovascular system

Vaschillo, Evgeny; Vaschillo, Bronya; Buckman, Jennifer F.; Nguyen-Louie, Tam T.; Heiss, Sydney; Pandina, Robert J.; Bates, Marsha E.

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.02.007

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“…The instructions given for a task are also an important consideration. In some cases, 116 , 117 , 118 researchers administer a low-demand cognitive ‘Vanilla' Task, 119 which may have some relevance for psychiatric populations that have difficulty sitting still or experience stress under experimental ‘resting-state' conditions. Instructions with attentional demands may also modulate HRV, primarily because of changes in respiratory depth and frequency.…”

Section: Ibi Collectionmentioning

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Guidelines for Reporting Articles on Psychiatry and Heart rate variability (GRAPH): recommendations to advance research communication

2016

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The number of publications investigating heart rate variability (HRV) in psychiatry and the behavioral sciences has increased markedly in the last decade. In addition to the significant debates surrounding ideal methods to collect and interpret measures of HRV, standardized reporting of methodology in this field is lacking. Commonly cited recommendations were designed well before recent calls to improve research communication and reproducibility across disciplines. In an effort to standardize reporting, we propose the Guidelines for Reporting Articles on Psychiatry and Heart rate variability (GRAPH), a checklist with four domains: participant selection, interbeat interval collection, data preparation and HRV calculation. This paper provides an overview of these four domains and why their standardized reporting is necessary to suitably evaluate HRV research in psychiatry and related disciplines. Adherence to these communication guidelines will help expedite the translation of HRV research into a potential psychiatric biomarker by improving interpretation, reproducibility and future meta-analyses.

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Guidelines for Reporting Articles on Psychiatry and Heart rate variability (GRAPH): recommendations to advance research communication

2016

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“…However, this can bear the risk of "excessive" sighing that can override metabolic needs and lead to reduction in pCO 2 below optimal levels. Sighing also affects frequency oscillations in multiple cardiovascular parameters (Vaschillo et al, 2015); the implications of these effects remain to be explored. Addressing such questions has the potential to help us qualify the observed respiratory patterns as either detrimental or beneficial for the musicians.…”

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Respiratory Variability, Sighing, Anxiety, and Breathing Symptoms in Low- and High-Anxious Music Students Before and After Performing

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Music performance anxiety (MPA) is a major problem for music students. It is largely unknown whether music students who experience high or low anxiety differ in their respiratory responses to performance situations and whether these co-vary with selfreported anxiety, tension, and breathing symptoms. Affective processes influence dynamic respiratory regulation in ways that are reflected in measures of respiratory variability and sighing. This study had two goals. First, we determined how measures of respiratory variability, sighing, self-reported anxiety, tension, and breathing symptoms vary as a function of the performance situation (practice vs. public performance), performance phase (pre-performance vs. post-performance), and the general MPA level of music students. Second, we analyzed to what extent self-reported anxiety, tension, and breathing symptoms co-vary with the respiratory responses. The participants were 65 university music students. We assessed their anxiety, tension, and breathing symptoms with Likert scales and recorded their respiration with the LifeShirt system during a practice performance and a public performance. For the 10-min periods before and after each performance, we computed number of sighs, coefficients of variation (CVs, a measure of total variability), autocorrelations at one breath lag (ARs(1), a measure of non-random variability) and means of minute ventilation (V' E), tidal volume (V T), inspiration time (T I), and expiration time (T E). CVs and sighing were greater whereas AR(1) of V' E was lower in the public session than in the practice session. The effect of the performance situation on CVs and sighing was larger for high-MPA than for low-MPA participants. Higher MPA levels were associated with lower CVs. At the within-individual level, anxiety, tension, and breathing symptoms were associated with deeper and slower breathing, greater CVs, lower AR(1) of V' E , and more sighing. We conclude that respiratory variability and sighing are sensitive to the performance situation and to musicians' general MPA level. Moreover, anxiety, tension, breathing

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“…Sighing is associated with emotional states [44], such as is observed in states of anxiety where sighing is exaggerated [45]. Furthermore, evidence suggests that excessive sighing can exaggerate panic [45].…”

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“…For example, in experiments using mice that were genetically engineered to lack the ability to sigh, it was found that the mice incapable of sighing died of major lung problems sooner than normal mice [45] [46]. Additionally, research suggests that sighing helps to reset normal breathing patterns, and can "activate the cardiovascular system…by imposing very low frequency oscillations" [44]. These studies support our theory that breathing is vital to cellular functions and oscillatory activity that influence unconscious activities of the heart and lungs that involve emotions.…”

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The Dynamic Role of Breathing and Cellular Membrane Potentials in the Experience of Consciousness

Jerath¹,

Cearley²,

Barnes³

et al. 2017

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Understanding the mechanics of consciousness remains one of the most important challenges in modern cognitive science. One key step toward understanding consciousness is to associate unconscious physiological processes with subjective experiences of sensory, motor, and emotional contents. This article explores the role of various cellular membrane potential differences and how they give rise to the dynamic infrastructure of conscious experience. This article explains that consciousness is a body-wide, biological process not limited to individual organs because the mind and body are unified as one entity; therefore, no single location of consciousness can be pinpointed. Consciousness exists throughout the entire body, and unified consciousness is experienced and maintained through dynamic repolarization during inhalation and expiration. Extant knowledge is reviewed to provide insight into how differences in cellular membrane potential play a vital role in the triggering of neural and non-neural oscillations. The role of dynamic cellular membrane potentials in the activity of the central nervous system, peripheral nervous system, cardiorespiratory system, and various other tissues (such as muscles and sensory organs) in the physiology of consciousness is also explored. Inspiration and expiration are accompanied by oscillating membrane potentials throughout all cells and play a vital role in subconscious human perception of feelings and states of mind. In addition, the role of the brainstem, hypothalamus, and complete nervous system (central, peripheral, and autonomic) within the mind-body space combine to allow consciousness to emerge and to come alive. This concept departs from the notion that the brain is the only organ that gives rise to consciousness.

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The effects of sighing on the cardiovascular system

Cited by 18 publications

References 64 publications

Guidelines for Reporting Articles on Psychiatry and Heart rate variability (GRAPH): recommendations to advance research communication

Guidelines for Reporting Articles on Psychiatry and Heart rate variability (GRAPH): recommendations to advance research communication

Respiratory Variability, Sighing, Anxiety, and Breathing Symptoms in Low- and High-Anxious Music Students Before and After Performing

The Dynamic Role of Breathing and Cellular Membrane Potentials in the Experience of Consciousness

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