00:00According to research published in Nature, the way you breathe may be impacting your ability to remember.
00:06Science Alert reports, the consequential impacts of breathing patterns on the brain can strengthen or weaken our memory.
00:13The findings could potentially assist future treatment of brain disorders and mental health issues.
00:19The scientists of the study interfered with genetically modified mice
00:23and found that when they temporarily stopped the mice from breathing,
00:26the animals were less able to form important memories during object recognition and fear conditioning tests.
00:33Pauses in breathing also seemed to affect the activity of the brain's hippocampus,
00:38long and short memory storage during memory recall.
00:42Neuroscientist Nozomu Nakamura from Hyogo Medical University in Japan says,
00:48although details of respiratory function on brain states remain unclear,
00:52recent studies suggest that respiration may play an important role during online brain states.
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