Original Research Papers From our Lab

(For a comprehensive bibliography of Robert Banzett's published works click here)

Links are given to pages containing the reference information, abstract, and key results figures. Please note: the copyrights to these papers are held by the journal and book publishers.  These files are provided for your individual entertainment only.  Links to pdf files of the papers are given when available. Many of the pdf files are images of the original articles and are thus moderately large (1-2 MB). Newer papers that are available electronically are not on this site.  If you or your library do not have access to one of these more recent papers, contact us and we will arrange to email you a reprint.  (We are grateful to Alexandre Claudon for scanning most of these papers).


-High-level quadriplegics perceive lung volume change. Banzett, Lansing and Brown, 1987 get full paper (free) pdf

-Dyspnea: mechanisms, evaluation and treatment. Burki, Tobin, Guz, Sharp, Banzett and Mahler, 1988

-'Air hunger' arising from increased PCO2 in mechanically ventilated quadriplegics. Banzett, Lansing, Reid, Adams and Brown, 1989  get full paper (free) pdf

-'Air hunger' from increased PCO2 persists after  complete neuromuscular block in humans. Banzett, Lansing, Brown, Topulos, Yager, Steele, Londono, Loring, Reid, Adams and et al., 1990  get abstract w/figsget full paper (free) pdf

-Reduced tidal volume increases 'air hunger' at fixed PCO2 in ventilated quadriplegics. Manning, Shea, Schwartzstein, Lansing, Brown and Banzett, 1992  get full paper (free) pdf

-Perceptions from pulmonary and chemoreceptor afferents. Banzett and Lansing, 1993  get full paper (free) pdf

-What do paralyzed awake humans feel when they  attempt to move? Lansing and Banzett, 1993  get abstract w/figs

-Effect of mental activity on breathing in congenital  central hypoventilation syndrome. Shea, Andres, Paydarfar, Banzett and Shannon, 1993  view abstract   get full paper (free) pdf

-Ventilatory responses to exercise in humans lacking ventilatory chemosensitivity. Shea, Andres, Shannon and Banzett, 1993 view abstract  get full paper (free) pdf from Journal of Physiology web site

-Respiratory sensations in subjects who lack a ventilatory response to CO2. Shea, Andres, Shannon, Guz and Banzett, 1993   get full paper (free) pdf

-The experience of complete neuromuscular blockade  in awake humans. Topulos, Lansing and Banzett, 1993  get full paper (free) pdf

-Respiratory sensations and their role in the control of breathing. Shea, Lansing and Banzett, 1995  get full paper (free) pdf

-Dynamic response characteristics of CO2-induced  air hunger. Banzett, 1996  get abstract w/figs

-Respiratory sensations arising from chemoreceptors  and pulmonary receptors: air hunger and lung volume. Banzett and Lansing, 1996 get full paper (free) pdf

-Stimulus-response characteristics of CO2-induced air hunger in normal subjects. Banzett, Lansing, Evans and Shea, 1996   get abstract w/figs    get full paper (free) pdf

-Air hunger induced by acute increase in PCO2 adapts to chronic elevation of PCO2 in ventilated humans. Bloch-Salisbury,  Shea, Brown, Evans and Banzett, 1996  get abstract w/figs    get full paper (free) pdf

-Ventilatory relief of the sensation of the urge  to breathe in humans: are pulmonary receptors important? Harty, Mummery, Adams, Banzett, Wright, Banner, Yacoub and Guz, 1996 get full paper (free) pdf from Journal of Physiology web site

-Psychophysical methods in the study of respiratory sensation. Lansing and Banzett, 1996  view on Google books

-Self-control of level of mechanical ventilation  to minimize CO2 induced air hunger. Shea, Harty and Banzett, 1996 view abstract  get full paper (free) on Am J Resp Crit Care Med web site

-Perception of inflation of a single lung lobe  in humans. Banzett, Shea, Brown, Schwartzstein, Lansing and Guz, 1997  view abstract  get full paper on Science Direct web site

-Self-control and external control of mechanical  ventilation give equal air hunger relief. Bloch-Salisbury, Spengler, Brown  and Banzett, 1998 view abstract   get full paper (free) on Am J Resp Crit  Care Med web site

-Tidal volume perception in a C1-C2 tetraplegic subject is blocked by airway anesthesia. Lansing, Banzett, Brown, Reid and Kaplan, 1998  get full paper (free) pdf

-Competition between gas exchange and speech production in ventilated subjects. Shea, Hoit and Banzett, 1998 view abstract  get full paper on Science Direct  web site

-Respiratory sensations during heavy exercise in subjects without respiratory chemosensitivity. Spengler, Banzett, Systrom, Shannon and Shea, 1998 view abstract  get  full paper on Science Direct web site

-Cardiorespiratory variables and sensation during stimulation of the left vagus in patients with epilepsy. Banzett, Guz, Paydarfar, Shea, Schachter and Lansing, 1999 view abstract  get full paper on Science Direct  web site

-Symptom perception and respiratory sensation in asthma. Banzett, Dempsey, O'Donnell and Wamboldt, 2000 get full paper (free) on Am J Resp Crit Care Med web site

-Breathlessness in humans activates insular cortex.  Banzett, Mulnier, Murphy, Rosen, Wise and Adams, 2000 view abstract  get full paper on Neuroreport web site

-The perception of respiratory work and effort  can be independent of the perception of air hunger. Lansing, Im, Thwing,  Legedza and Banzett, 2000 view abstract   get full paper (free) on Am J Resp Crit  Care Med web site

-Acute partial paralysis alters perceptions of  air hunger, work and effort at constant PCO2 and VE. Moosavi, Topulos, Hafer, Lansing, Adams, Brown and Banzett, 2000 view abstract  get full paper (free) on Am J Resp Crit Care Med web site

-Dyspnea and Pain: Similarities and Contrasts Between Two Very Unpleasant Sensations. Banzett and Moosavi, 2001   get full paper (free) on American Pain Society web site

-High strength stimulation of the vagus nerve in awake humans: a lack of cardiorespiratory effects. Binks, Paydarfar, Schachter, Guz and Banzett, 2001 view abstract  get full paper on Science Direct web site

-"Tightness" sensation of asthma does not arise from the work of breathing. Binks, Moosavi, Banzett and Schwartzstein, 2002  view abstract   get full (free) paper on  Am  J Resp Crit Care Med web site

-BOLD fMRI identifies limbic, para-limbic and cerebellar activation during air hunger. Evans, Banzett, Adams, McKay, Frackowiak and Corfield, 2002 view abstract    get full (free) paper from J Neurophys

-Hypoxic and hypercapnic drives to breathe generate equivalent levels of air hunger in humans. Moosavi, Golestanian, Binks, Lansing, Brown and Banzett, 2003.  view Abstract  get full paper (free) from J. Appl. Physiol.

-Mechanical chest-wall vibration does not relieve air hunger. Bloch-Salisbury E, Binks AP, Banzett, RB, Schwartzstein RM. Respir Physiolo Neurobiol 134:177-90, 2003  get abstract     get full paper on Science Direct web site

-Measurement of dyspnea: word labeled visual analog scale vs. verbal ordinal scale. Lansing RW, Moosavi SH, Banzett RB. Respiratory  Physiology & Neurobiology 134:77-83, 2003 get abstract  get full paper on Science Direct web site