Humor as a reward mechanism: Event-related potentials in the healthy and diseased brain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Mensen, Armand ^a   Poryazova, Rositsa ^b   Schwartz, Sophie ^c   Khatami, Ramin ^a  

^a Clinic Barmelweid   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENSERAZIDE PLUS LEVODOPA; CLONAZEPAM; LEVODOPA; MODAFINIL; OXYBATE SODIUM; RASAGILINE; ROTIGOTINE;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CATAPLEXY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRODE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMOR; MALE; NARCOLEPSY; PARKINSON DISEASE; REWARD; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DOPAMINE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LAUGHTER; MALE; NARCOLEPSY; NEUROPEPTIDES; PARKINSON DISEASE; REWARD; WIT AND HUMOR AS TOPIC;

EID: 84900416766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085978     Document Type: Article

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