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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1970) 116: 637-641. doi: 10.1192/bjp.116.535.637
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A Psychophysiological Study of Breathing Behaviour

ANDREW SKARBEK Ph.D., M.B., B.S., M.R.C.S., D.P.M.1

1 Psycholinguistic Research Unit, University College London, W.C.1; The Langham Clinic of Psychotherapy, 37 Queen Anne Street, W.1

Changes in resting breathing rate (RBR) of 101 acute psychiatric patients during the course of treatment in hospital have been measured.

Clinical improvement was significantly associated with a mean decrease of RBR of 3.40 breaths per minute.

Treatment with phenothiazines appeared to decrease RBR, while ECT and to a lesser extent anti-depressants appeared to increase it. There were no statistically significant differences between diagnostic groups in degree of change of RBR.

Submitted on September 17, 1968






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