Open AccessEffect of 12 weeks of yoga training on neurocognitive variables: A quasi-experimental study
Author(s) -
Sridip Chatterjee,
Samiran Mondal,
Deepeswar Singh
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_325_20
Subject(s) - neurocognitive , alertness , analysis of variance , morning , medicine , body mass index , psychology , repeated measures design , physical therapy , audiology , cognition , psychiatry , statistics , mathematics
Neurocognitive abilities are the brain-mind skills needed to initiate any task from the simplest to the most complex, decreases with advancing age. Attention, alertness, and memory are the basic neurocognitive functions most affected by age. There are potential benefits of yoga on neurocognitive functions because this ancient Indian technique positively nurtures the mind-body systems.