ArticleCurrent treatment options in psychiatry2017
Exercise Treatments for Psychosis: A Review.
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- Organization of Community Mental Health Services for Persons with a Severe Mental Illness and Comorbid Somatic Conditions: A Systematic Review on Somatic Outcomes and Health Related Quality of Life.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Exercise behaviours and motivation after a first psychotic episode: A digital intervention.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2024Trial
- Aerobic and Postural Strength Exercise Benefits in People with Schizophrenia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
- Exercise Intervention in Individuals at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis: Benefits to Fitness, Symptoms, Hippocampal Volumes, and Functional Connectivity.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2022Trial
- A Supervised Exercise Intervention for Youth at Risk for Psychosis: An Open-Label Pilot Study.The Journal of clinical psychiatryTrial
- Aerobic Exercise for Cognitive and Functional Enhancement in Schizophrenia: Evidence, Mechanisms, and Practical Recommendations.Schizophrenia bulletin open · 2026Article
- Increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary behaviour in patients diagnosed with non-affective psychosis: a cross-sectional UK study identifying cognitions to target in treatment.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
- Effects of Physical Exercise on Executive Function in Schizophrenia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Indirect Interventions: Lifestyle Options to Treat Mental Disorders.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Ameliorates Olanzapine-Induced Hypolocomotion in a Rat Model.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Nutritional Modulation of the Gut-Brain Axis: A Comprehensive Review of Dietary Interventions in Depression and Anxiety Management.Metabolites · 2024Review
- The PSY-SIM Model: Using Real-World Data to Inform Health Care Policy for Individuals With Chronic Psychotic Disorders.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2024Article
- Designing and implementing a physical exercise intervention for people with first episode psychosis using experience-based co-design: A pilot study from Chennai, India.Asian journal of psychiatry · 2024Article
- Physical and mental health in adolescence: novel insights from a transdiagnostic examination of FitBit data in the ABCD study.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
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- Efficacy of the combination of water aerobics and metacognitive training on psychological and physical health variables and their relationship with SP1 and SP4 biomarkers in people with psychosis: a study protocol.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Physical and Mental Health in Adolescence: Novel Insights from a transdiagnostic examination of FitBit data in the ABCD Study.Research square · 2023Article
- Evaluating a pilot community-based FITMIND exercise programme for psychosis in Hong Kong.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- A Mobile Health App (ChillTime) Promoting Emotion Regulation in Dual Disorders: Acceptability and Feasibility Pilot Study.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- A narrative review of treatment interventions to improve cognitive performance in schizophrenia, with an emphasis on at-risk and early course stages.Psychiatry research · 2022Review
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Abstract
Schizophrenia is a devastating mental illness that has profound effects on a person's health and quality of life. Exercise represents a promising new treatment option that may supplement current psychosocial and pharmacological interventions for psychosis. A large body of work suggests that exercise can improve cardio-metabolic and health behavior and facilitate neurogenesis in areas of the brain that are notably impacted by psychosis. Recent efforts to incorporate exercise as either stand-alone or adjunctive treatment for individuals with schizophrenia range from yoga and light stretching to moderately intense walking, bike riding, or team sports. These interventions suggest that moderately intense exercise may be beneficial for improving both positive and negative symptomatology, cognition and functioning. Indeed, exercise may be beneficial for decreasing risk factors for a wide range of health problems often observed in patients with schizophrenia, including weight gain and metabolic syndrome as well as tobacco and substance use. Given the positive results from interventions in schizophrenia patients, there is an impetus for incorporating exercise in the early stages of the disorder. Notably, individuals at ultrahigh risk (UHR) for psychosis report more sedentary behavior and perceive less benefit from exercise; interventions prior to the onset of the disorder may be helpful for increasing health behaviors, perhaps delaying or preventing the onset of psychosis. Taken together, for individuals with psychosis, exercise may provide holistic benefits for the neural to the social impairments.
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