Respiration and Emotion

1. Front Matter

   Pages II-VIII

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2. Behavioral Breathing and Sensation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Location and Electric Current Sources of Breathlessness in the Human Brain

      • Ikuo Homma, Arata Kanamaru, Yuri Masaoka

      Pages 3-9

   3. Respiratory sensations may be controlling elements on ventilation but can be affected by personality traits and state changes

      • Neil S. Cherniack, Marc H. Lavietes, Lana Tiersky, Benjamin H. Natelson

      Pages 11-19

   4. Respiratory Sensations and the Behavioral Control of Breathing

      • Steven A Shea

      Pages 21-29

   5. Dyspnea in patients with asthma

      • Yoshihiro Kikuchi, Shinichi Okabe, Hajime Kurosawa, Hiromasa Ogawa, Wataru Hida, Kunio Shirato

      Pages 31-39

3. Respiration and Emotion (I)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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   2. How Breathing Adjusts to Mental and Physical Demands

      • Paul Grossman, Cees J. Wientjes

      Pages 43-54

   3. Anxiety and Respiration

      • Yuri Masaoka, Arata Kanamaru, Ikuo Homma

      Pages 55-64

   4. Respiration and the Emotion of Dyspnea/Suffocation Fear

      • Ronald Ley

      Pages 65-74

   5. Coordination of Breathing between Ribcage and Abdomen in Emotional Arousal

      • Hiroki Takase, Yutaka Haruki

      Pages 75-86

   6. Behavioural and Physiological Factors Affecting Breathing Pattern and Ventilatory Control in Patients with Idiopathic Hyperventilation

      • Sandy Jack, Mark Wilkinson, Christopher J. Warburton

      Pages 87-98

4. The Art of Breathing in the East and the West

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. Effects of the Eastern Art of Breathing

      • Yutaka Haruki, Hiroki Takase

      Pages 101-111

   3. Biofeedback for Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and Tanden Breathing among Zen Monks: Studies in Cardiovascular Resonance

      • Paul Lehrer

      Pages 113-120

   4. Breathing Regulation in Zen Buddhism

      • Tadashi Chihara

      Pages 121-126

5. Respiration and Emotion (II)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127

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   2. Gaining Insight into the Factors that Influence the Variabilty of Breathing

      • Thomas Brack, Martin J. Tobin

      Pages 129-138

   3. Facilitation and Inhibition of Breathing During Changes in Emotion

      • Akio Umezawa

      Pages 139-148

   4. Environmental Stress, Hypoventilatory Breathing and Blood Pressure Regulation

      • David E. Anderson

      Pages 149-159

Gasps, sighs, and yawns are recognized by even a casual observer as involuntary expressions of emotion through the "medium" of respiration. In recent years, scientific observation has focused on sensation and behavior as researchers investigate the relation of emotion and stress in disorders such as asthma, hyperventilation, and panic disorder. Until now, however, the interplay of psychological factors and physiological responses has not been approached from the interdisciplinary perspective reported in this book. Brought together here is the work of physiologists, psychologists, and researchers in behavioral medicine, together with - for the first time - specialists and practitioners of traditional Japanese arts and culture. Knowledge of the art and control of breathing, which are essential features of such disciplines as Zen and Noh, opens a new and until now unexplored path for scientists seeking to understand the relation between respiration and emotion.

• Arousal
• Asthma
• Emotions
• Japanese art
• Psycological stress
• Respiration
• physiology

• School of Human Science, Waseda University, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan

  Yutaka Haruki

• Second Department of Physiology, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

  Ikuo Homma, Yuri Masaoka

• Department of Psychology, Fukui University, Fukui, Japan

  Akio Umezawa

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