Posts Tagged ‘depression’
Yoga
The word yoga is derived from a work yoke, it means to bring together. Bring together the mind, body, soul and spirit.Yoga is a scientific method of physical and mental fitness. More than three hundred years ago it was originated in India. The purpose of yoga is to achieve the highest potential and to experience the good health and happiness. Yoga can help to extend healthy and productive years of life and it also improves our living conditions.
Yoga is gaining importance due to its short term and long term benefits. Yoga has the spiritual benefits, it provides fitness and flexibility, it is also beneficial for health disorders.
The depression can have many bad affects on the mental as well as the physical health of human and recent study has shown that the people who are suffering from severe depression find it really harder to interpret facial expressions as compared to the healthy people.
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The study got published in the august issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry and it was carried by a group of researchers from University of Otago in New Zealand. Almost 68 people have been studied who were suffering from severe depression and they were asked to take part in the facial expression recognition task.
The people were shown 96 different faces and all of them were displaying 5 basic emotions angry, happy, sad, fearful and disgusted expressions. After the study it was found that the normal group of people was quite good at recognizing the facial expressions of disgust as compared to those who have been reported of severe depression.
