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Volume 6 Issue 6 June 2016

Let’s celebrate International Yoga Day (21st June) Yoga & mental health

“Sthiram sukham aasanam”, meaning ‘that position which is comfortable and steady’ is a concise definition of yogasana in the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali. The art of yoga is thousands of years old. However, the science of yoga and its application to mental health issues is relatively recent. Scientific literature is showing beneficial effects of yoga in mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, suicidality, schizophrenia, autism, ADHD, dementia etc. This all point to the promise of yoga as an effective therapeutic option in psychiatry, provide the needed impetus to moving the field ahead for future multicentric, controlled studies on larger sample and wider application of yogic interventions for prevention and treatment of mental disorders. We appreciate all the readers for sparing their valuable time in reading newsletter and proving timely inputs. We also thank all the contributors for benefitting all. We welcome Dr. Gopal Das and Dr. Suravi Patra for joining MINDS family as Editor and Assistant Editor from July 2016.

Dr Naresh Nebhinani, MD, DNB
Assistant Professor, AIIMS Jodhpur (Raj)
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