Why the study?
Does a 12-week yoga intervention improve mood, anxiety, and brain GABA levels compared to walking in healthy subjects?
Population
34 healthy subjects with no significant medical/psychiatric disorders (yoga n=19, walking n=15)
Comparison
Yoga for 60 minutes 3 times a week for 12 weeks vs Metabolically matched walking intervention for…
Design
RCT, Randomized
Follow-up
12 weeks
Authors
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Supports yoga over walking for mood/anxiety in healthy adults; extends GABA-mediated mechanistic evidence.
Does a 12-week yoga intervention improve mood, anxiety, and brain GABA levels compared to walking in healthy subjects?
A 12-week yoga intervention improves mood and anxiety more than walking, and these improvements correlate with increased thalamic GABA levels.
Streeter et al. (2010) studied this question.
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