February 2012

Effect of interaction between eye-hand dominance on dart skill

The purpose of this research was surveying the effect of interaction between eye hand dominance on dart skill. Twenty healthy male subjects (age: 21.43±1.33) from University of Shahid Chamran were served as the participants for this study. Subjects were divided into two groups: unilateral (right eye and right hand or left eye and left hand) group (10 subjects) and cross lateral (right eye and left hand or left...

Author(s): Rahil Razeghi, Parvaneh Shafie Nia, Nahid Shebab bushehri and Farzad Maleki

February 2012

Psycho-biological correlation of yoga exercise in young Iranian women

Yoga is considered as stress-reduction training. A case-control cohort study was designed to investigate the effects of yoga training on stress and plasma levels of cortisol in young (20 to 35 years) Iranian women. For experimental group, women (n=15) were recruited after their consent from a yoga training center in Isfahan (Iran) to participate in a twice weekly 90 min classes of yoga exercises for a period of...

Author(s): Manoochehr Messripour and Shohreh Sharifian