Breathing and Anxiety - with Ashburn Clinic 2024

""Disruptions in how we perceive body symptoms are thought to be a key aspect of mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression. We use breathing to better understand brain-body communication, employing targeted respiratory tasks to measure and change body states. Paired with these tasks, we use brain imaging to investigate how the brain perceives and learns about changes in the body, and how this may be altered with elevated anxiety. We are now running longitudinal studies to investigate how currently available treatments (such as anxiolytics and exercise) can improve anxiety, and how they may (or may not) improve brain-body communication."