Exercises that helps you from Schizophrenia disorder

Schizophrenia disorder

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion and behavior leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feeling and withdrawn from reality into fantasy and delusion.

Scientists at Melbourne’s Howard Florey institute have shown that mental and physical exercise can improve behavioral deficits in schizophrenia and repair damaged chemical transmitter pathways in brains. Schizophrenia is known to be associated with a reduced volume in the area of hippocampus which helps in regulating emotion and memory.

“Previous studies have shown that neuron growth in hippocampus can be stimulated by exercise”.

Aerobic fitness also increased amongst all who exercised and improvement in test scores for short term memory was correlated with hippocampus volume amongst patients.

A number of studies have high lightened that clinician population level of suffer from poor physical health. For example, Chamove had indicated that patients with schizophrenia score well below normal population on physical fitness. They are commonly overweight, have excess body fat and are unfit. Their physical health can benefit from exercise therapy, given the wide range of physical elements typically experienced by clinical patients. The physical benefits of exercise therapy alone present a sufficient reason for inclusion in any form of psychiatric rehabilitation.

Source of Article: Jasvinder Kaur, Ayush Vashisht

Visit: Dr. A. Kalyan Chakravarthy, Psychiatry specialist.