Psychological and physiological effects of 24-style Taijiquan

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 212-218

  Liu, Yunfa ^a   Mimura, Kanichi ^b,c   Wang, Lixin ^b   Ikuta, Komei ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA KYOIKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

24 style Taijiquan; Cycle ergometry; Electroencephalography Profile of Mood State

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELAXATION TRAINING;

AFFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; RESPIRATION;

EID: 27944445337     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000089485     Document Type: Article

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