China News Service, Beijing, August 20 (Reporter Sun Zifa) The reporter learned from the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences on the 20th that a study completed by Zhang Xiangyang's research group at the Key Laboratory of Mental Health of the Chinese Academy of Sciences showed that traditional Chinese Tai Chi and other physical and mental effects Exercise can effectively improve the typical clinical symptoms of patients with schizophrenia.
The team’s important research progress paper in the field of schizophrenia has recently been published online in the professional academic journal Frontiers in Psychiatry (Frontiers in Psychiatry).
Associate researcher Wei Gaoxia, the first author of the paper and a member of the scientific research team, said that in the related research fields of health psychology, physical and mental exercise has increasingly become a focus of attention of Chinese and foreign scholars, but previous studies have not yet reached a unified conclusion on its effects. A recent meta-analysis study conducted by the research team explored the intervention effects of physical and mental exercise in the treatment of schizophrenia, clarified the prescription dose effect of this exercise method, and provided a scientific basis for the clinical application of physical and mental exercise. This study retrieved 13 original studies from 7 databases at home and abroad, involving 1159 subjects. The data sources are comprehensive, time-effective and extendable.
The latest research and analysis results show that physical and mental exercise can effectively improve the typical clinical symptoms of patients with schizophrenia, including positive symptoms such as auditory hallucinations, delusions, thinking disorders, and negative symptoms such as timidity, lack of logical thinking, emotional apathy, and decreased beliefs. , The frequency of physical and mental exercise intervention is positively correlated with the improvement of positive symptoms. At the same time, physical and mental exercise has a good therapeutic effect on the depressive symptoms of patients with schizophrenia.
Wei Gaoxia said that the results of this research have important theoretical and practical significance in the field of sports rehabilitation: one is to provide a theoretical basis for the assisted treatment of schizophrenia with physical and mental exercise; the other is to provide a path for clinicians in the medical field to carry out exercise rehabilitation for corresponding diseases. Proof; Third, it helps to deeply explore the application value of traditional Chinese physical and mental sports such as Taijiquan, Baduanjin, and Wuqinxi.
She also added that in the future, modern brain imaging technology will be used to reveal the recovery mechanism at the three levels of body-heart-brain, clarify the positive impact of traditional physical and mental exercises on brain health, and further promote Chinese traditions from the perspective of scientific evidence Tai Chi exercise promotes the international integration and ideological collision of this form of exercise in science, culture and medicine.
It is understood that schizophrenia is a chronic mental illness with a series of symptoms such as delusions, auditory hallucinations, thinking disorders, and depression. It often occurs in adolescents and has a lifetime prevalence of 1.0%. It has a high risk of recurrence and disability. , Residual symptoms bring huge pressure and financial burden to individuals, families and society.
At present, simple drug therapy has a good effect on patients with first-onset and acute-stage schizophrenia, but it is less effective for patients with recurrent and chronic stage, and has obvious side effects. As a traditional therapy with a long history, considerable curative effect, healthy and sustainable, physical and mental exercise will play an irreplaceable role in the clinical rehabilitation of neurological diseases. (Finish)