How might yoga help depression? A neurobiological perspective

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 118-126

  Kinser, Patricia Anne ^a,b   Goehler, Lisa Elane ^a   Taylor, Ann Gill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b Bon Secours Memorial College of Nursing   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DOPAMINE; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; PROLACTIN; SEROTONIN; VACCINE;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTHRITIS; BACKACHE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN LEVEL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COLD; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; JOINT MOBILITY; KINDLING; LEISURE; LIBIDO DISORDER; LIFE STRESS; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NECK PAIN; NEURITIS; NEUROBIOLOGY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONADRENERGIC NONCHOLINERGIC NERVE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; REVIEW; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPIRITUAL HEALING; STRESS; UNITED STATES; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOGA;

EID: 84858629873     PISSN: 15508307     EISSN: 18787541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2011.12.005     Document Type: Article

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