Your brain consumes about 20% of your body’s total oxygen supply, making it incredibly dependent on efficient breathing patterns for optimal function. Most people never think about how they breathe, ...

Have you ever felt that your head feels "heavy" in a fleeting moment? When we stare at our smartphone screens between desk ...

You are doing it right now, and until I mentioned it, you were not aware of it. We all take breathing for granted. As Prof. Henry Higgins described Eliza Doolittle’s habits, joys, and woes in My Fair ...

The science of breathing stands on quite ancient foundations. Centuries of wisdom instructs us to pay closer attention to our breathing, the most basic of things we do each day. And yet, maybe because ...

Scroll down for a transcription of this episode. Dr. David Spiegel leads us in a practice of cyclic sighing, a simple breathing technique that uses slow, extended exhales to calm your nervous system, ...

Breathing is so automatic that it rarely gets questioned. Yet, many people move through their entire day breathing in a way that could strain the body. The chest rises, breaths stay shallow, and the ...

Ever feel like your brain is running on empty by 3 p.m.? That mental fog that creeps in during afternoon meetings or when you’re trying to tackle a challenging project might not just be fatigue — it ...

Scientists discovered a brain circuit that allows us to regulate voluntary breathing, which connects the brain's emotional and behavioral cortical area to its automatic breathing brainstem area. The ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of California San Diego shows that the brain does not simply respond to breathing as a steady rhythm. Instead, the detailed shape of each individual ...