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ArticleMedicine2019

Yoga and schizophrenia-a comprehensive assessment of neuroplasticity: Protocol for a single blind randomized controlled study of yoga in schizophrenia.

Shivarama Varambally, Ganesan Venkatasubramanian, Ramajayam Govindaraj, Venkataram Shivakumar, Thrinath Mullapudi, Rita Christopher, Monojit Debnath, Mariamma Philip, Rose Dawn Bharath, B N Gangadhar

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Article in Medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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3 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Does Yoga Have a Role in Schizophrenia Management?Current psychiatry reports · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shivarama VaramballyDepartment of Psychiatry.
Ganesan VenkatasubramanianDepartment of Psychiatry.
Ramajayam GovindarajDepartment of Psychiatry.
Venkataram ShivakumarDepartment of Psychiatry.
Thrinath MullapudiDepartment of Human Genetics.
Rita ChristopherDepartment of Neurochemistry.
Monojit DebnathDepartment of Human Genetics.
Mariamma PhilipDepartment of Biostatistics.
Rose Dawn BharathDepartment of Neuroimaging and Interventional Radiology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India.
B N GangadharDepartment of Psychiatry.
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences · IN

Funding

DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance IA/CPHI/15/1/502026Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionSchizophrenia is one of the most severe mental disorders with a prevalence of about 1% and a leading cause of disability among young adults. Pharmacotherapy is the mainstay in the management of schizophrenia. However, even with the best of medication, several problems like refractoriness, negative symptoms, frequent relapses, and cognitive impairments persist.

methodsThis is a randomized-controlled clinical study including patients from an urban tertiary hospital and a semi-urban community center, with a between-group, repeated-measures, longitudinal design. This study will recruit 160 patients with DSM 5 diagnosis of schizophrenia who are on stable medication for a minimum of 6 weeks; they will be randomly assigned into 2 arms viz., yoga therapy (YT), and treatment-as-usual (TAU) with 80 patients in each arm. Participants will undergo Clinical, Laboratory, and Radiological assessments at baseline and at intervals of 1 month, 3 months, and 6 months from the baseline. It is hypothesized that yoga will improve psychopathology and emotion processing, increase serum brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and plasma oxytocin levels and effect changes in cerebral activation in areas of the brain associated with schizophrenia. DISCUSSION: This study aims to measure the efficacy of a Yoga-based intervention as an adjunct in patients with schizophrenia as well as the mechanisms of these effects.

trial registrationRegistered retrospectively with Clinical Trial Registry - India (CTRI) with registration number CTRI/2017/08/009219.

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Neuronal PlasticitySchizophrenic PsychologyAdolescentAdultFemaleHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleMiddle AgedRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicSchizophreniaSingle-Blind MethodTreatment OutcomeUrban PopulationYogaYoung Adult

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PMCPMC6824782
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