Fear of suffocation alters respiration during obstructed breathing

Psychophysiology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 829-832

  Pappens, Meike ^a   Smets, Elyn ^a   Van Den Bergh, Omer ^a   Van Diest, Ilse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dyspnea; Fear of suffocation; Inspiratory resistive load

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860518647     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01355.x     Document Type: Article

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