15 Feb
✨ Can slow breathing make us less fearful? ✨
But more importantly, how do you actually teach a rodent to meditate?!
Well in UCLA neuroscientists lead by Prof Jack Feldman did just that – by inducing slow breathing in mice. They slowed down their respiratory response by a factor of 10 and did this for 30 minutes a day for 4 weeks.
“The results showed significantly less freezing (fear response) in the slow breathing group”
They then carried out a fear response test – essentially testing the degree to which the rodents would freeze in a stressful situation.
The results showed significantly less freezing (fear response) in the slow breathing group – to such a degree that was comparable to some major manipulation going on in the amygdala – an essential brain region in fear processing.
(this study is not yet released but I’m curious to learn more!)
Reminds me of Fievel goes West, brave little guy!
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