UCLA and Stanford researchers pinpoint origin of sighing reflex in the brain
February 8, 2016
Researchers now have a better understanding of how the brain triggers sighing, which is vital to lung function.
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Scientists, including UCLA’s Jack Feldman (department of Neurobiology in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute), have pinpointed two tiny clusters of neurons that are responsible for transforming normal breaths into sighs, which could one day allow physicians to treat patients who cannot breathe deeply on their own.
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