Syncope is a common clinical problem affecting up to 40% of individuals over a lifetime. Most cases, especially ...

Anxiety or severe stress often causes very fast and deep breathing. Rapid breathing is caused by many other factors as well. The medical term for this rapid breathing is hyperventilation. Let us tell ...

March 17, 2009 (Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico) — For individuals with blood-injection-injury (BII) phobia, a novel biobehavioral approach aimed at regulating breathing may lessen anxiety, new research ...

Seizures can disrupt the autonomic nervous system, potentially leading to cardiac arrhythmias, which are abnormal heart rhythms. Cardiac arrhythmias can cause convulsive syncope, a condition ...

Hyperventilation refers to fast breathing. In some cases, people who hyperventilate may breathe deeper than usual. Hyperventilation may occur due to an underlying condition or emotional distress. A ...

Stress can cause seizures known as psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES). PNES differ from neurological seizures with causes such as epilepsy. Learn about stress’s relationship to PNES, panic ...

Although several drugs in wide use at the present time benefit the majority of patients with petit-mal seizures the seizures of some patients are not controlled by commonly used medications; thus, in ...