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ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2014

Potential self-regulatory mechanisms of yoga for psychological health.

Tim Gard, Jessica J Noggle, Crystal L Park, David R Vago, Angela Wilson

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Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04414371 (Tools for Wellbeing COVID-19 National Study of Undergraduate Students), which is not on this map. Cited by 148 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT04414371 naunknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2020, after this paper: background citation

Tools for Wellbeing COVID-19 National Study of Undergraduate Students

TypeinterventionalSponsorRutgers, The State University of New JerseyRan2020 to 2020Enrolled200ConditionsStress, Anxiety, Depression, ResilienceArmsYoga
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

148 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. How yoga shapes the brain: a systematic review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026
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  18. Qualitative similarities and distinctions between participants' experiences with a yoga intervention and an attention control.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Tim GardDepartment of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA, USA ; Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, Justus Liebig Universität Giessen Giessen, Germany ; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University Maastricht, Netherlands.
Jessica J NoggleDivision of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA.
Crystal L ParkDepartment of Psychology, University of Connecticut Storrs, CT, USA.
David R VagoDepartment of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA.
Angela WilsonInstitute for Extraordinary Living, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health Stockbridge, MA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Research suggesting the beneficial effects of yoga on myriad aspects of psychological health has proliferated in recent years, yet there is currently no overarching framework by which to understand yoga's potential beneficial effects. Here we provide a theoretical framework and systems-based network model of yoga that focuses on integration of top-down and bottom-up forms of self-regulation. We begin by contextualizing yoga in historical and contemporary settings, and then detail how specific components of yoga practice may affect cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and autonomic output under stress through an emphasis on interoception and bottom-up input, resulting in physical and psychological health. The model describes yoga practice as a comprehensive skillset of synergistic process tools that facilitate bidirectional feedback and integration between high- and low-level brain networks, and afferent and re-afferent input from interoceptive processes (somatosensory, viscerosensory, chemosensory). From a predictive coding perspective we propose a shift to perceptual inference for stress modulation and optimal self-regulation. We describe how the processes that sub-serve self-regulation become more automatized and efficient over time and practice, requiring less effort to initiate when necessary and terminate more rapidly when no longer needed. To support our proposed model, we present the available evidence for yoga affecting self-regulatory pathways, integrating existing constructs from behavior theory and cognitive neuroscience with emerging yoga and meditation research. This paper is intended to guide future basic and clinical research, specifically targeting areas of development in the treatment of stress-mediated psychological disorders.

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bottom-upexecutive controlself-regulationstresstop-downviscerosomaticyoga

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PMCPMC4179745

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