Respiratory modulation of stress and emotion: from mechanisms to interventions

Chair(s): Fran Meeten (King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, UK; South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust), Jente Depoorter (Ghent University, Belgium)

Presentations of the Symposium

Respiratory modulation of cardiac interoception in response to psychosocial stress

Riet Vergauwe¹, Saman Seifpour², Gert Vanhollebeke¹, Mitchel Kappen¹, Stefanie De Smet³, Marie-Anne Vanderhasselt¹, Chris Baeken^1
1Department of Head and Skin, Ghent University, Belgium, ²Neuroimaging Center (NIC), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Medical Center, Mainz, Germany; Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research, Germany, ³Department of Head and Skin, Ghent University, Belgium; Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands

The immediate effects of a resonant breathing exercise on adolescents’ stress responses

Nathalie Michels¹, Marie-Anne Vanderhasselt², Jolien Braet¹, Janne Vreye¹, Riet Vergauwe², Jente Depoorter³, Matteo Giletta^1
1Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, ²Department of Head and Skin, Ghent University, Belgium, ³Department of Experimental, Clinical and Health Psychology,Ghent University, Belgium

An experimental investigation of the effects of resonance frequency breathing on symptoms of anxiety.

David Spalding¹, Toni Ejoor¹, Liberty Wade¹, Elif Nalcaci¹, Tang-Ni Chuang¹, Cristina Ottaviani², Milan Valášek¹, Colette Hirsch³, Hugo Critchley⁴, Fran Meeten^3
1King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, UK, ²Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, ³King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, UK; South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, ⁴Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer, UK

The effect of a short slow paced breathing exercise on positive reappraisal of autobiographic negative memories.

Jente Depoorter, Kristof Hoorelbeke, Rudi De Raedt
Department of Experimental, Clinical and Health Psychology,Ghent University, Belgium

Combining physical exercise and slow-paced breathing to improve psychophysiological indices of emotion reactivity, psychosocial stress reactivity and recovery.

Emmanuelle Schoonjans¹, Zefeng Li¹, Jens Allaert¹, Evi Wezenbeek², Pieter Van den Berghe³, Simon Helleputte⁴, Stefanie De Smet⁵, Rudi De Raedt⁶, Marie-Anne Vanderhasselt^1
1Department of Head and Skin, Ghent University, Belgium, ²Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium, ³Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; Department of Biomechanics, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE, USA, ⁴Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, ⁵Department of Head and Skin, Ghent University, Belgium; Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands, ⁶Department of Experimental, Clinical and Health Psychology,Ghent University, Belgium