Breathing acts as a clock in sleep, research shows

Scientists have discovered a close connection between breathing and sleep, saying that breathing is an important clock of the sleeping brain.

On the one hand, the process of sleeping is not just being motionless, but in it, the activities of the brain continue and the process of breathing plays a very important role in regulating them.

The mind does not shut down during sleep, it just 'saves' important matters and memories of the day. This involves communication between certain parts of the brain and information, but the process was not fully understood.

Now Professor Anton of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany, and his colleagues have said that breathing fluctuations act as a kind of pacemaker, reaching different parts of the brain and synchronizing them.

The process of breathing automates the entire nervous system by acting as a constant and regular system.

For this, scientists have recorded the activity of thousands of neurons in the brain of mice in the laboratory. It turns out that the fluctuation of breathing plays a very important role in keeping them regular.

That is, important brain regions such as the hippocampus, medial prefrontal, and visual cortex are all affected by respiration.

Thus it was found that breathing has an effect on the brain's limbic circuit. Because the hippocampus is the seat of memory and breath has an effect on it.

Thus we can say that the coordination of breathing itself plays an important role in memory and mental connections.