Taking humour serious - Smiling, exhilaration and the brain;Humor ernst genommen - Lächeln, erheiterung und das gehirn

Nervenheilkunde

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 562-566

  Wild, Barbara ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion; Facial expression; Laughter; Positive psychology

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMOR; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; REVIEW; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 33846581944     PISSN: 07221541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1626751     Document Type: Review

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