Cognitive deficits, specifically in episodic and working memory, and structural deficits like
hippocampal volume reduction are hallmarks of an unfavorable outcome in schizophrenia …

Major depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia are severe mental illnesses. Despite
receiving psychopharmacological and psychosocial treatments, about half of patients …

During the last years, several lines of evidence support the notion that aerobic exercise has
the potential to improve symptoms and outcomes in severe mental disorders. Patients with …

We examined the feasibility of providing a no-cost physical exercise intervention for
psychiatric patients at an urban outpatient treatment center in the USA by applying an …

During the last decades, physical exercise has been part of treatment strategies in
psychiatric hospitals, but to date there is only sparse information on the effectivity …

Background The focus in recent years on physical inactivity and metabolic disturbances in
individuals with schizophrenia raises the question of potential effects of physical activity …

Cognitive deficits in schizophrenia are crucially important for patients' functional outcome,
but they do not significantly improve with currently available treatment options. On the basis …

The aim of this chapter is to provide a systematic overview of exercise outcomes in recent (ie
last decade) randomized controlled trials investigating the effect of aerobic exercise in …

Different aspects of methods (eg, endurance training versus yoga and Tai Chi), length and
dose of the intervention, supervision of patients by sports therapists as well as maintenance …

Cognitive deficits are core symptoms in patients with schizophrenia (SZ) and major
depressive disorder (MDD), but specific and approved treatments for cognitive deterioration …