Effect of 12 weeks of yoga training on the somatization, psychological symptoms, and stress-related biomarkers of healthy women

Conclusions: Yoga training has the potential to reduce the somatization score and the scores related to mental health indicators, such as anxiety, depression, anger, and fatigue. The present findings suggest that yoga can improve somatization and mental health status and has implications for the prevention of psychosomatic symptoms in healthy women.Trial registration: University Hospital Medical Information Network (UMIN CTR) UMIN000007868.

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Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine - January 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Kazufumi YoshiharaTetsuya HiramotoTakakazu OkaChiharu KuboNobuyuki Sudo Source Type: research