DocumentCode
2180633
Title
The amused brain: Neuropsychoanalytic perspectives on laughter, humor and mirth
Author
Wiest, Gerald ; Brainin, Elisabeth
Author_Institution
Dept. of Neurology, Med. Univ. Vienna, Vienna
fYear
2009
fDate
21-23 May 2009
Firstpage
367
Lastpage
371
Abstract
Laughter is an extremely rare clinical symptom of focal epilepsy. We present the video-documented case reports of two patients with epileptic laughter. Our data imply, that laughter responses can be triggered in humans from frontal areas down to the hypothalamus. The findings are discussed within the context of current neuroscientific, psychoanalytic and evolutionary concepts of laughter, humor and mirth.
Keywords
brain; neurophysiology; clinical symptom; evolutionary concepts; focal epilepsy; neuropsychoanalytic perspectives; neuroscientific concepts; psychoanalytic concepts; Animals; Context; Deafness; Epilepsy; Humans; Nervous system; Neuroscience; Pediatrics; Psychology; Rats; affect; disinhibition; emotions; evolution; humor; network; psychoanalysis;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Human System Interactions, 2009. HSI '09. 2nd Conference on
Conference_Location
Catania
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-3959-1
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-3960-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/HSI.2009.5091007
Filename
5091007
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