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This study concerns the effects of forced unilateral nostril breathing on brain hemisphere stimulation and autonomic activity

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Changes in intraocular pressure induced by differential forced unilateral nostril breathing, a technique that affects both brain hemisphericity and autonomic activity

Joshua Backon, Nelson Matamoros and Uriel Ticho
Journal Graefe’s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

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Publisher Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
ISSN 0721-832X (Print) 1435-702X (Online)
Issue Volume 228, Number 3 / May, 1990
Category Erratum
DOI 10.1007/BF00920034
Page 275
Subject Collection Medicine
SpringerLink Date Monday, January 03, 2005

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A pilot study
Journal Graefe’s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
Publisher Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
ISSN 0721-832X (Print) 1435-702X (Online)
Issue Volume 227, Number 6 / November, 1989
Category Clinical Investigations
DOI 10.1007/BF02169455
Pages 575-577
Subject Collection Medicine
SpringerLink Date Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Joshua Backon(1), Nelson Matamoros(2) and Uriel Ticho(2)
(1) Mount Pleasant Hospital Addiction Studies Foundation, Lynn, Mass., USA
(2) Department of Ophthalmology, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

Received: 31 March 1989 Accepted: 10 May 1989

ABSTRACT:

There is evidence of the central regulation of intraocular pressure, and it has been suggested that vagal tone might be elevated in glaucoma simplex. The nasal cycle, the simultaneous congestion-decongestion response in the nasal cavities, reflects the dynamic lateralization of the autonomic nervous system. Since this lateralization presents with sympathetic activity induced by left brain hemisphere stimulation and parasympathetic activity induced by right hemisphere stimulation, forced unilateral nostril breathing (FUNB) has recently been demonstrated to induce selective contralateral hemispheric stimulation as measured by relative increases in EEG amplitude in the contralateral hemisphere as well as alternating lateralization of plasma catecholamines. Using this functional vagotomy/sympathectomy, we report the novel finding that right hemispheric activation via left FUNB increases intraocular pressure (IOP) by an average of 4.5%, whereas left hemispheric stimulation via right FUNB leads to a significant (25%) decrease in IOP.

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