Journal of International Psychiatry

Schizophrenia is a chronic disorder with unclear etiology, heterogeneitic manifestations and high disability. After thousands of years of spreading and evolution, yoga therapy has gradually developed into a kind of rehabilitation therapy of schizophrenia. Yoga therapy may improve the negative symptoms, depressive and anxiety symptoms as well as cognitive function of schizophrenia patients. However, the mechanism is still unknown. Till to now, there are not many high quality researches and no definite conclusions can be drawn. However, yoga therapy has a promising future because of its convenient operation and good compliance.

Yoga therapy; schizophrenia