Sarah Finnegan

Breathlessness in a virtual world: An experimental paradigm testing how discrepancy between VR visual gradients and pedal resistance during stationary cycling affects breathlessness perception.

This study uses a virtual reality paradigm to show that breathlessness perception is influenced by both expected and actual effort during cycling.

Baseline psychological traits contribute to Lake Louise Acute Mountain Sickness score at high altitude

The paper shows that baseline psychological traits like anxiety and neuroticism, not physiological changes, are linked to AMS symptoms at high altitude.

Dissociating breathlessness symptoms from mood in asthma

This study investigates the relationship between breathlessness symptoms, mood, and interoception in asthma patients and healthy controls, finding that negative mood affects interoceptive sensitivity and attention.

The Filter Detection Task for measurement of breathing-related interoception and metacognition

The paper introduces a task and analysis procedure to quantify breathing-related interoception dimensions using simulated and empirical data.

Opioids for breathlessness: Psychological and neural factors influencing response variability

This study investigates how psychological and neural factors influence variability in opioid response to breathlessness, finding negative affect and brain activity correlate with reduced efficacy.