"Laughter" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
An involuntary expression of merriment and pleasure; it includes the patterned motor responses as well as the inarticulate vocalization.
| Descriptor ID |
D007845
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.145.209.530.614 F01.470.693
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| Concept/Terms |
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Laughter" by people in this website by year, and whether "Laughter" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Laughter" by people in Profiles.
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Should I Laugh at That? Coping in the Setting of Serious Illness. N Engl J Med. 2024 Jul 25; 391(4):295-297.
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Excessive Laughter-like Vocalizations, Microcephaly, and Translational Outcomes in the Ube3a Deletion Rat Model of Angelman Syndrome. J Neurosci. 2021 10 20; 41(42):8801-8814.
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The Effects of Audiovisual Inputs on Solving the Cocktail Party Problem in the Human Brain: An fMRI Study. Cereb Cortex. 2018 10 01; 28(10):3623-3637.
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Observing conversational laughter in frontotemporal dementia. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2017 05; 88(5):418-424.
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Pathological Joking or Witzelsucht Revisited. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2016; 28(3):162-7.
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Short alleles, bigger smiles? The effect of 5-HTTLPR on positive emotional expressions. Emotion. 2015 Aug; 15(4):438-48.
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An open-label multicenter study to assess the safety of dextromethorphan/quinidine in patients with pseudobulbar affect associated with a range of underlying neurological conditions. Curr Med Res Opin. 2014 Nov; 30(11):2255-65.
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Does humor influence the stigma of mental illnesses? J Nerv Ment Dis. 2014 May; 202(5):397-401.
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Humor and laughter in persons with cognitive impairment and their caregivers. J Holist Nurs. 2014 Mar; 32(1):25-34.
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Toward a more precise, clinically--informed pathophysiology of pathological laughing and crying. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2013 Sep; 37(8):1893-916.