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Dejian Mind-Body Intervention on Depressive Mood of Community-Dwelling Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine , 06/02/09

Chan AS et al. - Results indicated that both the DMBI and the CBT group demonstrated significant reduction in depressive mood. However, among individuals with moderate to severe depressive mood at baseline, only those in the DMBI but not the CBT group showed significant reduction in depressive mood. Besides, only the DMBI group demonstrated a significant increase in prefrontal activation asymmetry, suggesting increase in positive affect. While most psychological therapies for depressive mood normally take several months to show treatment effect, the present findings provided initial data suggesting that the DMBI was effective in improving depressive mood of community adults after 1 month of training.

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Agnes S. Chan, 06/03/09

Dejian Mind-body intervention has been developed based upon the traditional Shaolin Chan principles, and this method has been used by Shi Dejian (a Shaolin monk) for over 20 years to improve mental and physical health of sicknesses. We have applied this method to patients with various brain disorders including Autism, Stroke etc. with encourging results. Clinical and basic research has been conducted to examine its effect. We welcomed interested helping profession to contact us for discussion and possible collaboration. aschan@psy.cuhk.edu.hk

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