Profile of mood states and stress-related biochemical indices in long-term yoga practitioners

BioPsychoSocial Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Yoshihara, Kazufumi ^a,b   Hiramoto, Tetsuya ^a   Sudo, Nobuyuki ^a   Kubo, Chiharu ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

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EID: 79957789235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17510759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0759-5-6     Document Type: Article

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