Humor, laughter, and the cerebellum: Insights from patients with acute cerebellar stroke

Cerebellum

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 802-811

  Frank, B ^a   Andrzejewski, K ^a   Goricke S ^a   Wondzinski, E ^b   Siebler, M ^b   Wild, B ^c   Timmann, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b MediClin Fachklinik Rhein/Ruhr ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Cognition; Emotion; Humor; Laughter; Stroke

Indexed keywords

3WD HUMOR TEST; ACUTE CEREBELLAR STROKE; ADULT; AGED; ART; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING HUMOR SCALE; CRUS I; DENTATE NUCLEUS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FACIAL ACTION CODING SYSTEM; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMOR; HUMOR APPRECIATION; LATENT PERIOD; LOBULE VI; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATE TRAIT CHEERFULNESS INVENTORY;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBELLUM; DEPRESSION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING; WIT AND HUMOR AS TOPIC;

EID: 84892434557     PISSN: 14734222     EISSN: 14734230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12311-013-0488-5     Document Type: Article

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