Highlights of the Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Advancement of Respiratory Psychophysiology and the 14th International Symposium on Respiratory Psychophysiology

This article provides a review of selected presentations and events that highlighted the annual meeting of the International Society for the Advancement of Respiratory Psychophysiology (ISARP) and the 14th International Symposium on Respiratory Psychophysiology, Toronto, Ontario Canada, October 1995. The meeting, which was scheduled as a satellite to the 35th annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, included two workshops (Diana M. Innocenti on ''Identification of Individual Breathing Patterns and Introduction to the Reeducation of Dysfunctional Patterns in Hyperventilation, Asthma, and Emphysema'' and Richard N. Gevirtz on ''Respiratory and Psychophysiological Factors in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Functional Cardiac and Panic Disorders''), two symposia (one on ''Breathing Retraining: Issues and Applications'' and one on ''Capnography and Hyperventilatory Hemodynamics''), three invited addresses (Hans Folgering on ''Rehabilitation of Patients with Exercise Hypoxemia''; David Stubbing on ''Assessing Impairment, Disability, and Handicap in Chronic Lung Disease''; and Robert Banzett on ''Hypercapnia-Induced Air Hunger''), three panel sessions (one on ''Respiratory Psychophysiology of Airway Obstruction,'' one on ''Applied Respiratory Psychophysiology,'' and one on ''Hyperventilation and Panic: Psychological Aspects''), and a poster session.