Treating breathlessness via the brain: changes in brain activity over a course of pulmonary rehabilitation
Background. Breathlessness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is often discordant with airway pathophysiology ("over-perception"). Pulmonary rehabilitation profoundly affects breathlessness, without influencing lung function. Learned associations influence brain mechanisms of...
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European Respiratory Society
2017
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