Posts by Maren B. Nyer, PhD
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Heated Yoga Linked to Reduction of Moderate to Severe Depressive Symptoms in Randomized Controlled Trial
In 2021, a randomized controlled trial showed heated yoga outperformed a waitlist control in a group of women with mild-to-moderate depression. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have extended the findings to a larger, mixed-gender, and more severely depressed population.
Biography
Maren B. Nyer, PhD, is director of yoga studies at the Depression Clinical and Research Program in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
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