The effects of suggestion on airways of asthmatic subjects breathing room air as a suggested bronchoconstrictor and bronchodilator☆
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This paper is based on the Masters' thesis of the senior author at Rutgers University. The work was supported by Grant # HL44097, from the Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Some of this material was presented previously at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Boston 17–20 October 1990.