Cerebral blood flow effects of yoga training: preliminary evaluation of 4 cases.
Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) January 2009 Debbie L Cohen, Nancy Wintering, Victoria Tolles et al.
Experienced practitioners of yoga have been shown to alter brain function, but this case series measured cerebral blood flow before and after a 12-week training program in Iyengar yoga (IY) for naïve subjects. On the first day, each of the 4 subjects listened to the teacher speaking on the history and background of the yoga program while they were injected with 250 MBq of (99m)Tc-bicisate and...