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Chair and Discussants:
Frederick Wambold, MD, Paul Grossman, PhD
(1.) Evaluation of a meridian-based intervention, emotional freedom techniques (EFT)
and diaphragmatic breathing for reducing specific phobias of small animals
Patricia Carrington, EdD
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick and Piscataway, NJ, USA
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(2.) A psychological treatment program for patients with comorbid asthma and panic disorder
Paul Lehrer, PhD, Maria Karavidas, PsyD, and Linda Kranitz, JD
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey ---
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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(3.) The role of nitric oxide in the pathophysiology of asthma:
implications for respiratory psychophysiology
Robert Fried, PhD
City University of New York, Hunter College, New York, NY, USA
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(4.) Evaluation of a Yoga breathing meditation as a treatment for chronic insomnia
Sat Bir Khalsa, PhD, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
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(5.) Heart rate variability biofeedback as a treatment for fibromyalgia
Afton Hassett, PsyD, Diane Radvanski, MA, and Paul Lehrer, PhD
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
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(6.) Surprising data from a pilot study of Breathing and Movements and on
Respiratory,
Cardiovascular and Autonomic Nervous System Behaviors in Healthy Elderly
Bo von Scheele, PhD and Ingred von Scheele, RN
PBM Stress Medicine AB & Center for Applied Research In Stress Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
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(7.) Heart rate variability biofeedback in patients with recurrent abdominal pain:
a multiple case history study.
Erik Sowder, MS, BCIAC, Anu Kotay, MS, BCIAC, Richard Gevirtz, PhD, BCIAC, Cassie Cannon, MS, BCIAC
Alliant International University, San Diego, CA, USA.
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(8.) Paced breathing as a multi-facial therapeutic intervention:
Review of
mechanisms and integrative view concerning neural, cardiovascular and
pulmonary effects
Benjamin Gavish, PhD
InterCure Ltd., Lod, Israel.
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(9.) The experimental study on the effects of pause breathing patterns on heart rate variability.
Yijun Sun, MS, Tianjun Liu, DCM, MS, Yoshio Machi, PhD, and Chao Liu, PhD
Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China and Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo, Japan.
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(10.) Yoga for adolescents with health concerns.
Lisa C. Kalay-Isley, PhD, Marianne Wamboldt, MD
The Children's Hospital, Denver, CO, USA.
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(11.) Hyperventilation in patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome:The role for coping strategies
Katleen Bogaerts - Winner of a Student Award.
Katleen Bogaerts, Morgane Hubin, Ilse Van Diest, Stephen Devriese, Boudewijn Van Houdenhove, Peter Van Wambeke & Omer Van den Bergh
University of Leuven, Belgium, Department of Lung Diseases, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, and Department of Psychology
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Deane Hillsman, MD, (chair), University of California at Davis, California, USA
Vijai Sharma, PhD, Cleveland, TN, USA
Donna Frownfelter, PT, RRT, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, Chicago, IL, USA
Larry Cahalin, PT, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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Chair and Discussant: Paul Lehrer, PhD, BCIAC
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey,
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
(16.) Behavioral, neural, and genetic concomitants of respiratory modulated heart rate variability
Julian Thayer, PhD
National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging.
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(17.) Applications of HRV in clinical use:
Using the concept of "vagal withdrawal" in clinical assessment
Richard Gevirtz, PhD, Alliant University, San Diego, USA.
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(18.) Frequency ranges of the respiratory and heart rate baroreflex systems are in close agreement
Evgeny Vaschillo, PhD
Rutgers University, Piscataway, USA.
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(19.) Greater mental stress-induced reductions in cardiac parasympathetic activity
predict coronary and aortic atherosclerosis in healthy postmenopausal women
Peter J. Gianaros, PhD
Western Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, USA.
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(20.) Six established reasons why RSA is not cardiac vagal tone, but may sometimes reflect it
Paul Grossman, PhD
Freiburg Institute for Mindfulness Research, Freiburg, Germany.
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Co-Chairs and Discussants:
Gregory Fritz, MD, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
Omer van den Bergh, PhD, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
(22.) Stress, anxiety, and cortisol in adolescents with asthma
Marianne Wamboldt, MD
University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, USA.
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(23.) Asthma, attitude, adherence
Andrea Apter, MD
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
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(24.) Neural mediation of stress on airway function in asthma
Bruce Miller, MD
State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.
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(25.) Emotions and child asthma: Effects of family relations
Beatrice Wood, PhD
State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.
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(26.) Asthma and first onset of major depressive disorder in a community sample
Joshua Fogel, PhD
Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
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Co-Chairs and Discussants:
Bernhard Dahme, PhD, University of Hamburg, Germany
Donald Klein, MD, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
(28.) Panic anxiety and Vocal Cord Dysfunction in pulmonary medicine
Frederick Wamboldt, MD
National Jewish Research and Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA.
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(29.) Does hyperventilation cause panic?
Walton T. Roth, MD
Stanford University, USA.
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(30.) Hyperventilation in response to environmental chemical exposures.
Nicholas Giardino, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Nancy Fiedler, PhD, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, USA.
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(31.) Air hunger in response to hypercapnea in the Modified Rebreathing Test: Effects of repetition and anxiety.
Wan Li - Winner of a Student Award.
Wan Li, Elke Daems, Karel P. Van de Woestijne, Ilse Van Diest, Stephan Devriese, Stephen De Peuter, Katleen Bogaerts, & Omer Van den Bergh
University of Leuven, Belgium, Department of Lung Diseases, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, and Department of Psychology
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(32.) Conscious Control of Breathing
Neil Cherniack
UMDNJ, New Jersey Medical School, USA
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Chair: Frederick Wamboldt - National Jewish Research and Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
Chair: Jonathan Feldman, PhD - Yeshiva University, New York, NY, USA.
Discussant: Andrew Harver, PhD, University of North Caroline at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA.
(33.) Psychiatric disease and symptom report among high risk inner-city patients
Jonathan M. Feldman, Ph.D.
Yeshiva University of Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, New York, NY, USA.
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(34.) Symptom perception in the family context.
Elizabeth McQuaid, Ph.D.
Rhode Island Hospital / Brown Medical School, Providence, RI, USA.
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(35.) Pediatric asthma symptom perception: Psychological and cognitive factors
Daphne Koinis-Mitchell, Ph.D.
Rhode Island Hospital / Brown Medical School, Providence, RI, USA.
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(36.) Cortical representation of dyspnea: Clinical findings and perspectives
Andreas von Leupoldt and Bernhard Dahme
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
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(37.) Understanding psychophysics of breathing: Contribution of non-invasive ventilatory measurements
Sandy Jack
University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
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(38.) The Asthma Symptom Profile: Additional reliability and validity analyses of a
psychophysical
scale for rating intensity and unpleasantness of asthma symptoms
Linda Kranitz, JD, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Paul Lehrer, PhD, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey,
Robert
Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
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(39.) Evaluation of breath holding time and lung function before and after an intensive yoga program
Rosalba Courtney, ND, DO and Marc Cohen, MBBS
RMIT University, Bundoora, Australia.
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(40.) A pilot study of heart rate variability (HRV) Biofeedback as a treatment for major depression
Maria Karavidas, PsyD, and Paul Lehrer, PhD, BCIAC
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey,
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
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(41.) Prevalence and Correlates of Asthma in Clinically Anxious Children
Alicia E. Meuret, PhD, Jennifer E. Drake, MA, Donna B. Pincus, PhD, Tina In-Albon, MA, & Jill T. Ehrenreich, PhD
Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
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(42.) Attention please! How breathing facilitates attentive processing of visual and auditory stimuli
Patrick Gomez and Brigitta Danuser
Institut universitaire de Sante au Travail, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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(43.) No Symptoms, No Asthma: Self-Regulation Beliefs and Behaviors Among Inner-City Asthmatics
Ethan A. Halm, MD, and Howard Leventhal, PhD
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY, NYand Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
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(44.) Blunted Perception of Methacholine Bronchial Provocation in
Adolescents who Survived Life-threatening Asthma
A. Mansell, D. Steele, M. Federico, N. Walders, J. Devin, T. Monica, P. Biros and M. Wamboldt
Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University, Providence, R.I, and
National Jewish Medical
and Research Center and University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA.
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(45.) Gene expression and respiratory parameters during specific breathing exercises: A pilot study
Fahri Saatcioglu, PhD & Bo von Scheele, PhD
University of Oslo, Norway; and PBM Stress Medicine AB and Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
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(46.) Breathing exercises to enhance cerebral blood flow
Michael Assa, PhD, Alexander Gersten, PhD, and Dov Heimer, MD
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Soroka University Hospital, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
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(47.) Gender differences in the relationship between negative affectivity and subjective symptom reports
Ilse Van Diest, Steven De Peuter, Audrey Eertmans, Katleen Bogaerts, An Victoir & Omer Van den Bergh
Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Belgium
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(48.) Social cognitive determinants of participation in an asthma self-management program
Valentine Lemaigre, Omer Van den Bergh, An Victoir and Geert Verleden
University of Leuven, Belgium, Department of Lung Diseases, University Hospital Gasthuisberg,
and Department of Psychology
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(49.) Respiratory complaints in Chinese: cultural and diagnostic specificities
Jaingna Han, Yuanjue Zhu, Shunwei Li, Dongmei Luo, Xiansheng Chen, Zheng Hu, Claudia Put, Karel P. Van de Woestijne & Omer Van den Bergh
Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China and University of Leuven, Belgium, Department of Lung Diseases, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, and Department of Psychology
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(50.) Accuracy of respiratory symptom perception in different affective contexts
Katleen Bogaerts, Karolien Notebaert, Ilse Van Diest, Steven De Peuter, Stephan Devriese, & Omer Van den Bergh
Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Belgium
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(51.) Visual or auditory attentional bias for asthma-cues in asthma?
Steven De Peuter, Caroline Swennen, Karen Thijs, S. Servaes, Geert Verleden, Maurits Demedts & Omer Van den Bergh
University of Leuven, Belgium, Department of Lung Diseases, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, and Department of Psychology
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