Over the course of your life, you may have tried to slow your breathing to calm down, focused on your breath, or taken a breath and counted to 10 before deciding to get angry.
Breathing to control nerves and emotions is something that many have heard of or believe in, and now a new study is suggesting how the very act of breathing may contribute to brain health.
Researchers synthesized results from rodent, monkey, and human brain imaging to create a computational model that illustrates how breathing may influence the brain’s expectations.
They found that across humans and animals, as well as tasks, brain rhythms are closely linked with breath rhythms….