Exercise Treatment for Major Depression: Maintenance of Therapeutic Benefit at 10 Months

By M. Babyak, J. Blumenthal, S. Herman, P. Khatri, Murali Doraiswamy, Kathleen A. Moore, W. Edward Craighead, T. Baldewicz, K. Ranga Krishnan. Psychosomatic Medicine, 2000

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Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Physiology, Rehabilitation

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Effects of Psychological Capital on Mental Health and Substance Abuse (2015, background): “…(De Moor, Beem, Stubbe, Boomsma, & De Geus, 2006; Manger & Motta, 2005; Petruzzello, Landers, Hatfield, Kubitz, & Salazar, 1991), depression (Babyak et al., 2000; Camacho, Roberts, Lazarus, Kaplan, & Cohen, 1991; De Moor et al., 2006; Manger & Motta, 2005), and posttraumatic stress…”
Positive psychology in practice (2004, background): “Faulkner and Biddle (1999) concluded that exercise may alleviate secondary symptoms of schizophrenia such as depression, low self-esteem, and social withdrawal.”
Role of Physical Activity on Mental Health and Well-Being: A Review (2023, background): “However, research connecting exercise to a decreased risk of depression has not been analysed in depth [30].”
The Effects of Acute Exercise on Mood, Cognition, Neurophysiology, and Neurochemical Pathways: A Review (2016, background): “Serotonin has been implicated in the anti-depressant and anxiolytic action of exercise, with chronic exercise being just as effective as anti-depressant treatment in humans [215].”
Exercise as medicine – evidence for prescribing exercise as therapy in 26 different chronic diseases (2015, background): “The patients were examined again after 10 months (Babyak et al., 2000).”
Brain on stress: How the social environment gets under the skin (2012, background): “It is also wellknown that regular physical activity is an effective antidepressant and protects again cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and dementia (102, 103).”
The Effects of Stress on Physical Activity and Exercise (2014, positive): “Moreover, exercise interventions appear to improve one’s depression status [65, 66].”
The "Chemical Imbalance" Explanation for Depression: Origins, Lay Endorsement, and Clinical Implications (2007, neutral): “If depression can be reduced via multiple means such as medication, placebo responses, psychotherapy , exercise (e.g., Babyak et al., 2000), and so forth, then perhaps depression is multicausal and multifactorial in nature rather than resulting solely or primarily from an imbalance of brain…”
Evidence for prescribing exercise as therapy in chronic disease (2006, background): “Upon reinvestigation of the patients 6 months after completion of treatment (Babyak et al., 2000), it was found that the degree of depression and relapse rate were considerably lower in the exercise-alone group.”
Routledge Handbook of Applied Sport Psychology: A Comprehensive Guide for Students and Practitioners (2010, background): “Recently, comparisons of exercise with the use of SSRIs in depressed elderly patients has, again, suggested that exercise is an important and legitimate method of treatment for a wide range of depression (Babyak et al., 2000).”