September 19, 2024 by Schweizerischer Nationalfonds SNF Main effect of awareness on event-related potential amplitudes. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2311953121A new study from the University of Fribourg highlights previously unknown links between the body and the brain. The findings of this research show how our bodily rhythms affect our...
August 1, 2024 by Barbara Pinho, Horizon: The EU Research & Innovation Magazine Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainResearchers are looking to nature for inspiration on how to treat acute respiratory distress syndrome, a life-threatening condition affecting thousands every year. In 2014, Professor Kai Zacharowski, Director of the Clinic for Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy...
FEBRUARY 23RD, 2023 CONN HASTINGS MATERIALS, MEDICINE, PUBLIC HEALTH Researchers at City University of Hong Kong have developed an electrostatically charged face mask that can replenish its charge through the wearer’s breathing action. The electrostatic charge helps the mask to adsorb tiny particles, such as SARS-CoV-2 viruses. However, such masks typically lose their charge and ability to...
by Mariah Chuprinski, Pennsylvania State University Wenyu Tu, co-author on the eLife paper and doctoral student in neuroscience in the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, sets up a functional MRI experiment. Functional MRI was used in conjunction with neuronal electrophysiology to identify a link between respiration and neural activity changes. Credit: Kelby Hochreither/Penn State Mental...
AARHUS UNIVERSITY “Breathe in… Breathe out…” Or: “take a deep breath and count to ten.” The calming effect of breathing in stressful situations, is a concept most of us have met before. Now Professor Micah Allen from the Department of Clinical Medicine at Aarhus University has come a step closer to understanding how the very...
by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers with members from the University of Colorado, the University of Arizona and Alma College, all in the U.S., has found that resistance-breathing training can lower blood pressure as much as some medicines and/or exercises. The study is published in the Journal of...
by Harvard University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The average person will take more than 600 million breaths over the course of their life. Every breath stretches the lungs’ tissues with each inhale and relaxes them with each exhale. The mere motions of breathing are known to influence vital functions of the lungs, including their development...
by Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU has been working to develop a nasal spray to reverse overdose for ten years. Friend overdose rescue is very important. The nasal spray has now been tested on 201 real overdose patients. Photo: Kai Eide / Oslo University Hospital. Credit: Kai Eide / Oslo University Hospital A...
JANUARY 24, 2022 by Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Credit: CC0 Public Domain Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich neuroscientists have shown that breathing coordinates neuronal activity throughout the brain during sleep and quiet. While we sleep, the brain is not switched off, but is busy with “saving” the important memories of the day. To achieve that,...
