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Laughter Releases ‘Feel Good Hormones’ to Promote Social Bonding

By Honor Whiteman — 2017

Even in the hardest of times, laughter has a steadfast ability to bring people together. A new study reveals how laughter affects the brain, which may help to explain why having a giggle plays such an important role in social bonding.

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7 Ways Childhood Adversity Changes a Child’s Brain

If you’ve ever wondered why you’ve been struggling a little too hard for a little too long with chronic emotional and physical health conditions that just won’t abate, or feeling as if you’ve been swimming against some invisible current that never ceases, a new field of scientific research...

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2016
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Microglia: A New Target in the Brain for Depression, Alzheimer’s, and More?

As a science journalist whose niche spans neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, I knew at the time that it didn’t make scientific sense that inflammation in the body could be connected to — much less cause — illness in the brain.

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2020
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Childhood Trauma Leads to Lifelong Chronic Illness—so Why Isn’t the Medical Community Helping Patients?

When physicians help patients come to the profound revelation that childhood adversity plays a role in the chronic illnesses they face now, they help them to heal physically and emotionally at last.

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2016
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Why Laughter May Be Medicinal

A new study of 14 people finds that the body's response to laughter is similar in some ways to its response to repetitive exercise.

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Ira Flatow, Lee S. Berk
2010
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