Laughter in animals

Why Laughter Is Good For Mental Health by DrJyoti Karn Laughter makes an impact on limbic system and lets see what this could mean for mental health. Limbic system is found to be involved in all the emotions, along with laughter and basic functions needed to survive. The amygdala & hippocampus are 2 limbic structures that have a role in laughter. The amygdala links with hippocampus & medial dorsal nucleus of thalamus. Through these links, amygdala plays a major role in mediation & control of…

Sometimes You’ve Got to Bleed to Know Without a humorous side, the world will be a dark and dreary place. Our world is such a bright and beautiful place, but you need to be able to laugh and have fun to comprehend its beauty. Westernized societies shove depressing information down our throats. Then, one by one, they tell us how sad and disgusting we look. But if they took one look in the mirror, they would see that they’re actually the sad and disgusting ones. “Why’s that?,” because they have…

Now I Know Better On a Thursday year of 2015, I realized making people laugh isn’t as good as it seems in certain situations. After school, my mom and siblings decided that we should go to the park, to hang out with some friends. It was a good weather to go, not too cold and not too hot, so I didn’t refuse. As we got there, me and my older sister, Sondos, wanted to go for a walk near the fountains because we got bored from sitting down and wanted to see the ducklings swim around the fountains…

Pinker believes that people have so much trouble communicating because people are very sensitive and words can carry a lot of unnoticed weight behind them. Words are not the only thing that can be perceived in a variety of ways, however, as I have noticed that tone can be completely misread as well. Misinterpreted tone can turn a casual, sarcastic comment into a rude jab, or an honest compliment into an inappropriate come-on. Conversations are like playing Jenga, one wrong move and the entire…

Neba and I met at our mutual friend (yoni 's) house back in 2002. Neba was vacationing from London. My friend Samri and I went to yoni 's house during lunch time. Since I had to go back to school we didn 't stay that long. After we left, Samri said that Neba was checking me out and I didn 't think it was a big deal and that was it. Later, once we started dating, he found some pictures that we took together him standing next to me from our first acquaintance. I guess it was the gravity of love…

When I was in pre k I liked going to school so much but suddenly my mind changed when I skipped grade 1 and went to grade 2. I remember when I was in 2nd grade,I didn’t wanted to go to school. To me the hard part of the school was the students and the teachers, they were like a crow to me and I am the cat who is being chased by the crow. So when I walked through the brown door of the classroom I could feel the shiver in my body. I could hear the sound of children talking and laughing. Also I…

Hester as a sinner vs as a puritan: Hester is introduced as a very beautiful young lady, “The woman lady was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale...” Hawthorne (60) When she is let out of jail she is silent and grabs hold of her newborn baby tightly pushing her toward her breast where the Scarlet “A” was branded. She walks on to the scaffold she has a flashback of England suddenly becoming aware of the stern faces looking up at her, Hester painfully realizes her present…

“When do you guys want breakfast?” is the normal group text for the Wallwork study group on Saturday mornings. The group is made up of old friends that went to the same high school and some new ones we met along the way. The first responses come within the hour and as college students the time agree on is well past normal breakfast times at 11:30 am. With the time set, we head to Folgers dining hall. Some of us are wide awake and others look like they rolled out of bed the minute before. Today…

Behind the Smiles are the Tears Everyone knows at least one person who frequently uses self-deprecating humor. People respond with laughter, and it passes for a nice joke, but there is true pain hiding behind the joker's smile. This can become offensive if someone other than that one person speaks about an insecurity they have. The side effect being, possibly, depression which could lead to self-harm. It is important to note that Cyrano’s character is displayed as a well-known poet and cadet who…

"It is so pleasant to be out in this great room and creep around as I please!" "Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!" Jane is creeping at the end, becoming the women who she has seen out the window and behind the wallpaper. Generally, being on your knees is a sign of submission, and yet Jane creeps over John. In this scene, she is the one walking over him, she is the one in control in the moment. John…