Robert Fried, PhD, is a professor of biopsychology and behavioral neuroscience at Hunter College in New York City and author of Breathe Well, Be Well: A Program to Relieve Stress, Anxiety, Asthma, Hypertension, Migraine, and Other Disorders for Better Health (Wiley).
We’ve all seen scary movies where panicked characters start to hyperventilate or "overbreathe" -- breathing so fast that they nearly…
