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Dr. Peter Wayne, Research Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Harvard University, was recently featured in TIME Health regarding the health and exercise benefits of Tai Chi.
Reported in ScienceDaily on April 17, 2017
When individuals recently diagnosed with HIV were coached to practice skills to help them experience positive emotions, the result was less HIV in their blood and lower antidepressant use, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. Men using positive emotion skills learned to cope with their stress, while men in the control group increased their use of anti-depressants. The findings extend to dementia caregivers and women with metastatic breast cancer.
Fox News KTVU features a study at UCSF’s Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, with subjects who have major depression and found their condition eased with regular yoga classes.
“It’s the very first study in the U.S. that’s looking at yoga as a sole treatment for diagnosed major depression,” lead researcher Dr. Sudha Prathikanti told KTVU. Prathikanti evaluated men and women, age 18 to 72. The participants were diagnosed with major depression, but it was mild or moderate, not severe.
The New York Times highlights recent studies of Judith T. Moskowitz, Director of Research at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Northwestern University, who developed a set of eight skills to help foster positive emotions.