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Exercise and Meditation - Together - Help Beat Depression, Rutgers Study Finds
http://news.rutgers.edu/research-news/exercise-and-meditation-%E2%80%93-together-%E2%80%93-help-beat-depression-rutgers-study-finds/20160209
Exercise and Meditation – Together – Help Beat Depression, Rutgers Study Finds
Scientists say learning new cognitive skills can help reduce overwhelming negative thoughts
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
By Robin Lally
Meditation and aerobic exercise done together helps reduce depression, according to a new Rutgers study.
The study, published in Translational Psychiatry this month, found that the mind and body combination – done twice a week for only two months – reduced the symptoms for a group of students by 40 percent.
“We are excited by the findings because we saw such a meaningful improvement in both clinically depressed and non-depressed students,” says Brandon Alderman, lead author of the research study. “It is the first time that both of these two behavioral therapies have been looked at together for dealing with depression.”
Alderman, assistant professor in the Department of Exercise Science and Sports Studies, and Tracey Shors, professor in the Department of Psychology and Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, both in the School of Arts and Sciences, discovered that a combination of mental and physical training (MAP) enabled students with major depressive disorder not to let problems or negative thoughts overwhelm them.
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Exercise and Meditation – Together – Help Beat Depression, Rutgers Study Finds
Scientists say learning new cognitive skills can help reduce overwhelming negative thoughts
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
By Robin Lally
Meditation and aerobic exercise done together helps reduce depression, according to a new Rutgers study.
The study, published in Translational Psychiatry this month, found that the mind and body combination – done twice a week for only two months – reduced the symptoms for a group of students by 40 percent.
“We are excited by the findings because we saw such a meaningful improvement in both clinically depressed and non-depressed students,” says Brandon Alderman, lead author of the research study. “It is the first time that both of these two behavioral therapies have been looked at together for dealing with depression.”
Alderman, assistant professor in the Department of Exercise Science and Sports Studies, and Tracey Shors, professor in the Department of Psychology and Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, both in the School of Arts and Sciences, discovered that a combination of mental and physical training (MAP) enabled students with major depressive disorder not to let problems or negative thoughts overwhelm them.
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It truly does make the world look a very different place. What's important, though, is A) to pick a form of exercise that one can easily take up at least three to five times a week and B) that one doesn't use the time to entertain bleak thoughts. In the latter case it's good to have some entertainment -- a beautiful setting, some music, perhaps a companion to join in. Taking a class is also a good idea, because it's hard to obsess when someone is showing you yoga poses or coaching you through dog kicks. 
