Breathing as a Fundamental Rhythm of Brain Function

Ongoing fluctuations of neuronal activity have long been considered intrinsic noise that introduces unavoidable and unwanted variability into neuronal processing, which the brain eliminates by averaging across population activity (Georgopoulos et al., 1986; Lee et al., 1988; Shadlen and Newsome, 199...

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Published in:Frontiers in neural circuits Vol. 10; p. 115
Main Authors: Heck, Detlef H., McAfee, Samuel S., Liu, Yu, Babajani-Feremi, Abbas, Rezaie, Roozbeh, Freeman, Walter J., Wheless, James W., Papanicolaou, Andrew C., Ruszinkó, Miklós, Sokolov, Yury, Kozma, Robert
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Switzerland Frontiers Research Foundation 12.01.2017
Frontiers Media S.A
Subjects:
Animals
Brain
Brain Waves - physiology
Cerebral Cortex - physiology
Cognition & reasoning
Cortex
Decision making
Humans
Hypotheses
Neurobiology
Neuroscience
Neurosciences
Oscillations
Pain
Periodicity
Phase transitions
Proprioception
Respiration
Rhythm
Rhythms
Sensory perception
United States > US
mind-body
graph theory
phase amplitude coupling
embodied cognition
cortical oscillations
phase transitions
respiration
proprioception
ISSN:1662-5110, 1662-5110
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Summary:Ongoing fluctuations of neuronal activity have long been considered intrinsic noise that introduces unavoidable and unwanted variability into neuronal processing, which the brain eliminates by averaging across population activity (Georgopoulos et al., 1986; Lee et al., 1988; Shadlen and Newsome, 1994; Maynard et al., 1999). It is now understood, that the seemingly random fluctuations of cortical activity form highly structured patterns, including oscillations at various frequencies, that modulate evoked neuronal responses (Arieli et al., 1996; Poulet and Petersen, 2008; He, 2013) and affect sensory perception (Linkenkaer-Hansen et al., 2004; Boly et al., 2007; Sadaghiani et al., 2009; Vinnik et al., 2012; Palva et al., 2013). Ongoing cortical activity is driven by proprioceptive and interoceptive inputs. In addition, it is partially intrinsically generated in which case it may be related to mental processes (Fox and Raichle, 2007; Deco et al., 2011). Here we argue that respiration, via multiple sensory pathways, contributes a rhythmic component to the ongoing cortical activity. We suggest that this rhythmic activity modulates the temporal organization of cortical neurodynamics, thereby linking higher cortical functions to the process of breathing.
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Reviewed by: Beate Rassler, Leipzig University, Germany; Leslie M. Kay, University of Chicago, USA
Edited by: Alexey Semyanov, University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
ISSN:1662-5110
1662-5110
DOI:10.3389/fncir.2016.00115