Laughter and humor as complementary and alternative medicines for dementia patients

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Takeda, Masatoshi ^a   Hashimoto, Ryota ^a   Kudo, Takashi ^a   Okochi, Masayasu ^a   Tagami, Shinji ^a   Morihara, Takashi ^a   Sadick, Golam ^a   Tanaka, Toshihisa ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE COURSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMOR; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

DEMENTIA; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; LAUGHTER THERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; WIT AND HUMOR AS TOPIC;

EID: 77953640515     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-10-28     Document Type: Article

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