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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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2015
Review
2015
Virtuous laughter: we should teach medical learners the art of humor
There is increasing recognition of the stress and burnout suffered by critical care workers. Physicians have a responsibility to… 
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.
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… 
2009
2009
Mirthful laughter, as adjunct therapy in diabetic care, increases HDL cholesterol and attenuates inflammatory cytokines and C‐RP and possible CVD risk
Catecholamines are implicated in causing arrhythmias, hypertension, and MI reoccurrence. Mirthful laughter attenuates… 
2001
2001
The Effects of Laughter on Discomfort Thresholds: Does Expectation Become Reality?
Abstract Distraction and relaxation have been controlled in previous studies as possible mechanisms for the effectiveness of… 
1999
1999
Reassessment of mirthful laughter in rheumatoid arthritis.
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… 
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