14 September 2011

Proof that laughter really is the best medicine

People feel less pain after a good laugh, because it may cause the body to release chemicals that act as a natural painkiller.

This was the finding at the University of Oxford, in a paper entitled "social laughter is correlated with an elevated pain threshold" published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

The full text of the paper.

Newsreport

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