The effect of yoga on anxiety symptoms in women with obsessive compulsive disorder

Life Science Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 565-568

  Ranjbar, Fatemeh ^a   Broomand, Mehdi ^b   Akbarzadeh, Amirhossein ^a  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b RAZI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Alternative medicine; Meditation therapy; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Yoga

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886245878     PISSN: 10978135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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