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Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Most of us know the restorative value of an early night, so on some level we instinctively understand that sleep is good for both the body and the mind. Now, a growing body of research is starting to show just how vital sleep is to our overall health and longevity. Some believe that laughter is no longer the best medicine-sleep is.
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Curr Opin Psychol
December 2023
Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. Electronic address:
Humor is often described as a miracle pill for marketers, yet the effects of humor on advertising, content marketing, service, and other marketing functions are wildly inconsistent. Before scholars can know whether a pun, prank, meme, or laugh will attract sales, clicks, or five-star reviews, they need to understand why the effects of humor appear to vary. Humor has different effects because scholars have treated humor as different constructs while studying how it influences different marketing outcomes with different types of stimuli in different of situations on different types of people.
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Epilepsy Behav Rep
June 2023
Neuroradiology, University of Kentucky, United States.
Gelastic seizure is a rare type of seizure characterized by bouts of uncontrolled, stereotyped laughter and often associated with hypothalamic hamartomas. In this case study we review a patient with a low grade ganglioglioma in the temporal lobe, a rare type of brain tumor that commonly causes seizures. The 8-year-old ambidextrous patient presented with seizures starting four days prior to presentation, happening multiple times daily and with each seizure lasting for 5-15 s.
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