As a naturally anxious person, I’ve often found it frustrating when people tell me to “just take a deep breath and relax” when I’m feeling worked up. If the things I worry about could be fixed by ...

We breathe to sustain life but, aside from its most essential role, breathing supports the health of your body and mind in many other ways. More specifically, your breathing rate and patterns help ...

Most people think breathing during exercise is automatic and doesn’t require much thought beyond trying not to gasp for air. But the way you breathe during workouts has a massive impact on your ...

We inhale and exhale all day, every day, without thinking about it—but when we cultivate awareness of our breath, something ...

The lack of a sense of smell, called anosmia, can be congenital or acquired at some point in a person's lifetime. Eric Horst via Flickr under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Anosmia—the absence of the sense of ...

Apneustic breathing is a type of abnormal breathing pattern. It involves long, gasping inhalations and insufficient, irregular exhalations. It often stems from a brain injury but there may be other ...

REHOVOT, Israel — Forget fingerprints and facial recognition – researchers have discovered that the way you breathe through your nose is so unique, it can identify you with stunning accuracy. A ...