Psychiatric News (9/11) reports, “In an editorial” published online Sept. 4 in JAMA Psychiatry, the authors of research “published last year showing that even relatively modest regular exercise has significant beneficial effects on an individual’s mental health said that including exercise in the treatment of mental illness could improve rates of recovery and reduce illness burden.” The editorialists “wrote that when applied to the entire population, exercise could have a significant effect on reducing the population burden of mental illness.”
Related Links:
— “Getting Patients to Exercise Could Reduce Population Burden of Mental Illness, Psychiatric News, September 11, 2019