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However, baseline patient characteristics predicting improvements in breathlessness are unknown. This knowledge may provide better understanding of the mechanisms engaged in treating breathlessness and help to individualise therapy. Increasing evidence supports the role of expectation (ie, placebo and nocebo effects) in breathlessness perception. In this study, we tested functional brain imaging markers of breathlessness expectation as predictors of therapeutic response to pulmonary rehabilitation, and asked whether D-cycloserine, a brain-active drug known to influence expectation mechanisms, modulated any predictive model.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Data from 71 participants with mild-to-moderate COPD recruited to a randomised double-blind controlled experimental medicine study of D-cycloserine given during pulmonary rehabilitation were analysed (ID:\n                      <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" ext-link-type=\"clintrialgov\" xlink:href=\"NCT01985750\">NCT01985750<\/jats:ext-link>\n                      ). Baseline variables, including brain-activity, self-report questionnaires responses, clinical measures of respiratory function and drug allocation were used to train machine-learning models to predict the outcome, a minimally clinically relevant change in the Dyspnoea-12 score.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Only models that included brain imaging markers of breathlessness-expectation successfully predicted improvements in Dyspnoea-12 score (sensitivity 0.88, specificity 0.77). D-cycloserine was independently associated with breathlessness improvement. Models that included only questionnaires and clinical measures did not predict outcome (sensitivity 0.68, specificity 0.2).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Brain activity to breathlessness related cues is a strong predictor of clinical improvement in breathlessness over pulmonary rehabilitation. This implies that expectation is key in breathlessness perception. Manipulation of the brain\u2019s expectation pathways (either pharmacological or non-pharmacological) therefore merits further testing in the treatment of chronic breathlessness.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/thorax-2022-218754","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,26]],"date-time":"2022-12-26T13:25:24Z","timestamp":1672061124000},"page":"852-859","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/crossmarkpolicy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Brain activity measured by functional brain imaging predicts breathlessness improvement during pulmonary rehabilitation"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"78","clinical-trial-number":[{"clinical-trial-number":"nct01985750","registry":"10.18810\/clinical-trials-gov"}],"author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2249-7612","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sarah L","family":"Finnegan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Michael","family":"Browning","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Eugene","family":"Duff","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Catherine J","family":"Harmer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5130-7318","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Andrea","family":"Reinecke","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Najib M","family":"Rahman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1353-2199","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kyle T S","family":"Pattinson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"2024051320292332000_78.9.852.1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"87","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rmed.2018.12.004","article-title":"The impact of disease-specific fears on outcome measures of pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with COPD","volume":"146","author":"Reijnders","year":"2019","journal-title":"Respir Med"},{"key":"2024051320292332000_78.9.852.2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1183\/09031936.06.00130605"},{"key":"2024051320292332000_78.9.852.3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3109\/15412555.2012.705365"},{"key":"2024051320292332000_78.9.852.4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rmed.2009.01.023"},{"key":"2024051320292332000_78.9.852.5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1136\/bmjresp-2014-000051"},{"key":"2024051320292332000_78.9.852.6","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"701","DOI":"10.1002\/jhm.2600","article-title":"How well do patients and providers agree on the severity of dyspnea?","volume":"11","author":"Stefan","year":"2016","journal-title":"J Hosp Med"},{"key":"2024051320292332000_78.9.852.7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.biopsych.2006.09.018"},{"key":"2024051320292332000_78.9.852.8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1001\/archpsyc.61.11.1136"},{"key":"2024051320292332000_78.9.852.9","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1176\/appi.ajp.2013.12070974"},{"key":"2024051320292332000_78.9.852.10","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1016\/j.brat.2020.103607","article-title":"Neurocognitive processes in D-cycloserine augmented single-session exposure therapy for anxiety: a randomized placebo-controlled trial","volume":"129","author":"Reinecke","year":"2020","journal-title":"Behav Res Ther"},{"key":"2024051320292332000_78.9.852.11","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1183\/13993003.04099-2020","article-title":"Breathlessness in COPD: linking symptom clusters with brain activity","volume":"58","author":"Finnegan","year":"2021","journal-title":"Eur Respir J"},{"key":"2024051320292332000_78.9.852.12","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1136\/thx.2009.118521"},{"key":"2024051320292332000_78.9.852.13","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/014662167700100306"},{"key":"2024051320292332000_78.9.852.14","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Spielberger CD . 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