Physical activity and sports—real health benefits: a review with insight into the public health of Sweden

C Malm, J Jakobsson, A Isaksson - Sports, 2019 - mdpi.com
Positive effects from sports are achieved primarily through physical activity, but secondary
effects bring health benefits such as psychosocial and personal development and less …

Exercise and mental health

K Mikkelsen, L Stojanovska, M Polenakovic… - Maturitas, 2017 - Elsevier
There is a growing body of literature that recognizes the positive effects of exercise on mood
states such as anxiety, stress and depression, through physiological and biochemical …

Role of inactivity in chronic diseases: evolutionary insight and pathophysiological mechanisms

FW Booth, CK Roberts, JP Thyfault… - Physiological …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
This review proposes that physical inactivity could be considered a behavior selected by
evolution for resting, and also selected to be reinforcing in life-threatening situations in …

Exercise as medicine–evidence for prescribing exercise as therapy in 26 different chronic diseases

BK Pedersen, B Saltin - … journal of medicine & science in sports, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This review provides the reader with the up‐to‐date evidence‐based basis for prescribing
exercise as medicine in the treatment of 26 different diseases: psychiatric diseases …

[HTML][HTML] How to manage obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) under COVID-19: A clinician's guide from the International College of Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum …

NA Fineberg, M Van Ameringen… - Comprehensive …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The rapid advance of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has significantly increased
mortality but also has demonstrated considerable potential to negatively impact mental …

A meta-meta-analysis of the effect of physical activity on depression and anxiety in non-clinical adult populations

AL Rebar, R Stanton, D Geard, C Short… - Health psychology …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Amidst strong efforts to promote the therapeutic benefits of physical activity for reducing
depression and anxiety in clinical populations, little focus has been directed towards the …

Beneficial effects of exercise on depression and anxiety during the Covid-19 pandemic: a narrative review

S Hu, L Tucker, C Wu, L Yang - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2020 - frontiersin.org
First reported in Dec 2019, the on-going COVID-19 pandemic has become a public health
emergency of international concern (PHEIC). The isolation and quarantine during the …

Physical activity and subjective well-being in healthy individuals: a meta-analytic review

S Buecker, T Simacek, B Ingwersen… - Health psychology …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Longstanding research suggests a positive relation between physical activity and health.
However, when investigating this relation most studies focused on the absence of disease or …

[HTML][HTML] The recovery paradox: Portraying the complex interplay between job stressors, lack of recovery, and poor well-being

S Sonnentag - Research in Organizational Behavior, 2018 - Elsevier
Job stressors such as time pressure, organizational constraints, and interpersonal conflicts
matter for individual well-being within organizations, both at the day level and over longer …

Physical exercise effects on the brain during COVID-19 pandemic: links between mental and cardiovascular health

RAL De Sousa, AC Improta-Caria, R Aras-Júnior… - Neurological …, 2021 - Springer
The current pandemic was caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2). The quarantine period during corona virus disease 19 (COVID-19) outbreak …