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 …

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

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

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 …

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

Schizophrenia is a severe neuropsychiatric disease that is associated with neurobiological
alterations in multiple brain regions and peripheral organs. Negative symptoms and …

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 …

Background Individuals with serious mental illness are at a higher risk of physical ill health.
Mortality rates are at least twice those of the general population with higher levels of …

Introduction Physical activity, conceptualized as any bodily movement that results in energy
expenditure, and its structured form, exercise, play an important role in public health …

Exercise (EX) and physical activity (PA) have been shown to prevent or delay the onset of
several mental disorders and to have therapeutic effects in different groups of psychiatric …