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Laughter Therapy

Known as: Therapy, Laughter 
Therapeutic use of humor and laughter to improve emotional well being and health.
National Institutes of Health

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2012
2012
Epileptic laughter: 2 case reports.
Two cases of gelastic epilepsy in a 6-year-old girl with attacks of mirthful laughter and a 38-year-old male patient with… 
2012
2012
Seizures presenting as incessant laughter: a case of gelastic epilepsy.
2012
2012
A Global Sign of Outward Grace: The Sacramentality of the World Church in the Era of Globalization
hat is a sacrament?” I was asked to answer this question when I was sixteengoing-on seventeen and on the verge of formally… 
2011
2011
Old Light on a New Controversy: Alex Rentoul's Account of the Trobriand Women's Sagali
Of the many critical reactions to Bronislaw Malinowski's classic work on the Trobriand Islands, one of the most ethnographically… 
2010
2010
[Laughter therapy for chronic skeletal muscular pain].
The authors explain the effects introducing workshops for laughter therapy and relaxation to a unit dedicated to therapeutic… 
Review
2003
Review
2003
[Crazy laughter: first manifestation of a pontine tumour].
Crazy laughter (<<fou rire>>) was first described in 1903 as a prodromic symptom of an ischemic stroke and was later associated… 
1998
1998
The elixir of laughter in rehabilitation.
Review
1994
Review
1994
[Spasmodic laughter caused by unilateral involvement of the brain stem].
We report a case of spasmodical laughter due to a strictly unilateral lesion located in the pons and the caudal part of the… 
1984
1984
La risa en el Quijote y la risa de don Quijote
The focus is on those instances in Don Quijote in which Cervantes' comic outlook crystallizes in the form of laughter. Burlesque… 
1977
1977
Humorous laughter and relief of anxiety in first-born children.
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