The Neuroscience of Breathing

In with the good, out with the bad. In this episode we discuss the ins and outs of the respiratory control network. Why do we breathe? How do we breath? And what does this have to do with goats?

Papers mentioned:

Ventilatory and integrated physiological responses to chronic hypercapnia in goats

-https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30211447/

Effects on breathing of agonists to μ-opioid or GABAA receptors dialyzed into the Ventral Respiratory Column of awake and sleeping goats

-https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5996971/

Pre-Bötzinger Complex: a Brainstem Region that May Generate Respiratory Rhythm in Mammals

-https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1683005

Microcircuit synchronization and heavy tailed synaptic weight distribution augment preBötzinger Complex bursting dynamics

-https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36400528/

Pacemaker neurons and neuronal networks: an integrative view

-https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15582367/

Neuromodulation and the orchestration of the respiratory rhythm

-https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18602029/