SEARCH · Search PubMed
Search indexed PubMed citations on genomics, clinical trials, systematic reviews and public health. Explore titles, authors and supplied subject terms, then open the PubMed record.
Quote a phrase for an exact phrase match. Source license links do not imply unrestricted reuse.
After consuming either an alcoholic or nonalcoholic beverage, 48 subjects viewed a humorous film. Frequency of responsive laughter and subjective amusement was significantly greater in the alcohol group.
Introducing the joy of play and laughter into high-stress, high-demand work environments can increase creativity, productivity and motivation, as well as improve communication and boost morale, say several experts on humor in the workplace.
We report a case of 'fou rire prodromique' heralding a brainstem infarct with favorable prognosis after thrombolysis. Different clinical forms of pathological laughter, the pathophysiological mechanisms and clinico-anatomical correlations of this rare phenomenon are discussed.
Ethology is connected with attachment, deprivation experiment, territorial stress by animals, then by humans. Ethopsychiatry attends, among other things, to classic clinical approach in ethological perspective, to ethopharmacology, with animal models of depression and anxiety. It is interesting to include the theme of laugh and crying in human ethology, as a specific human like behaviour. Interest for animal and human suffering participates to medical act. Most of studies about crying were focused on human specificity of emotional (psychogenic) tears. Laughter as a specific human phenomenon is the best remedy against stress, also to give pleasure to your self and to other people (Acta....
Humor is an important part of life. Care should be taken to ensure that humor persists even during the bleakest times for patients, families, and medical personnel. Laughter eases the mind, defuses tension among people, and has positive physiologic effects on patients. Facilitated nursing intervention with humor helps to inject this important facet of life into difficult scenes. One successful approach to introducing humor into the hospital setting is a hall-roving "Laugh Mobile." Its humorous novelties, books, and films help divert the attention of suffering patients to lighter thoughts.
The human individual experiences his gestuality unaware, making it even more revelatory of his current state of mind. Certain actions represent innate behaviour, while others are discovered or assimilated during learning. The actions that signify the sending of any kind of message to another person, become "gestures". Laughter is an example of expressive behaviour and, as such, plays an important part in social interaction, insofar as it supplies signals that influence the response of other individuals. After a review of the philosophical and sociological interpretations inherent in laughing and smiling, the correlations between weeping, smiling and laughing are examined specifically from as ethological standpoint. The neurophysiological aspects whereby the crying, smiling and laughing mechanisms depend on a multifactorial control system, that implies the activation of limbic and frontal circuits, a motor cortex response and an activation of the autonomic response of the vegetative nervous system, correlated to the cortico-hypothalamic ways, are then examined. The pathological observations carried out in Man are identified with the study of psychomotor epilepsy in the context of "gelastic crises", cataleptic-gelolegic crises "and the pseudo-bulbar syndrome" with crying and spastic laughing. Finally, the possible therapeutic implications correlated with the laughing mechanism are discussed. In fact, the facial contractions, associated with the emotional experience connected with them, would appear to function as a standard brain signal. Interesting are the findings of changes in neuromediator and endorphin modifications implied in the neurophysiological smiling and laughing mechanism. A further basic element is the involvement of the autonomous system which can be correlated with the concept of the trophotropic response according to Hesse, with an increase in parasympathetic tone and reduction in sympathetic tone.
We report a case of spasmodical laughter due to a strictly unilateral lesion located in the pons and the caudal part of the mesencephalon. Pathophysiology of this particular symptom is reviewed.
A case of epileptic laughter associated with deep right temporal epidermoid cyst is reported. Interictal EEG with subdural grid electrodes demonstrated multifocal spike discharges in the right temporal lobe. Ictal EEG localized the epileptogenic foci at the base of the anterior medial temporal lobe. After standard temporal lobectomy, the tumor was completely removed. The patient is free from seizures postoperatively.
Creating a hospital environment which supports wellness is a concept which many hospital health professionals view as important but have little time and resources to pursue. However, the management of Moruya District Hospital on the Far South Coast of NSW, is taking on this challenge using laughter as the medium.
Articles in both the lay and professional literature have extolled the virtues of humor, many giving the impression that the health benefits of humor are well documented by the scientific and medical community. The concept that humor or laughter can be therapeutic goes back to biblical times and this belief has received varying levels of support from the scientific community at different points in its history. Current research indicates that using humor is well accepted by the public and is frequently used as a coping mechanism. However, the scientific evidence of the benefits of using humor on various health related outcomes still leaves many questions unanswered.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.