Tai Chi and Qigong for the Treatment and Prevention of Mental Disorders

Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 109-119

  Abbott, Ryan ^a   Lavretsky, Helen ^b  

^a Southwestern Law School and the Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complementary and alternative medicine; Integrative medicine; Mental health; Nonpharmacologic; Qigong; Quality of life; Tai Chi

Indexed keywords

ENDORPHIN; ESCITALOPRAM; TELOMERASE;

AEROBIC EXERCISE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANXIETY DISORDER; BONE DENSITY; BREATHING EXERCISE; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FIBROMYALGIA; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INSOMNIA; LEISURE; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEDITATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QIGONG; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELAXATION TRAINING; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SELF ESTEEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP QUALITY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TAI CHI; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WALKING; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; YOGA; KINESIOTHERAPY; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGY;

EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; QIGONG; TAI JI;

EID: 84875627251     PISSN: 0193953X     EISSN: 15583147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psc.2013.01.011     Document Type: Review

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