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Effect of yoga therapy on plasma oxytocin and facial emotion recognition deficits in patients of schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Bangalore N. Gangadhar,
N Jayaram,
S Varambally,
Rishikesh V. Behere,
Ganesan Venkatasubramanian,
Rashmi Arasappa,
Rita Christopher
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.116318
Subject(s) - oxytocin , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , emotion recognition , psychology , psychotherapist , medicine , clinical psychology , neuroscience , psychiatry
Yoga therapy has been demonstrated to be useful in treatment of negative symptoms and improving the socio-occupational functioning and emotion recognition deficits in antipsychotic-stabilized schizophrenia patients. Oxytocin has been recently implicated in social cognition deficits in schizophrenia. The effect of yoga therapy on oxytocin levels in schizophrenia has not been studied.

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