PURPOSE To develop a noninvasive test for monitoring changes in aqueous humor turnover in the mouse eye. METHODS After topical instillation of fluorescein, the rate of decay of fluorescence from aqueous humor and cornea was monitored in Black Swiss, C57 Bl6, and DBA 2J mice with a microscope equipped with epifluorescence and a charge-coupled device (CCD) camera. RESULTS The rate of decay of...

Savage BM, Lujan HL, Thipparthi RR, DiCarlo SE. Humor, laughter, learning, and health! A brief review. Adv Physiol Educ 41: 341–347, 2017; doi:10.1152/advan.00030.2017.—Human emotions, such as anxiety, depression, fear, joy, and laughter, profoundly affect psychological and physiological processes. These emotions form a set of basic, evolved functions that are shared by all humans. Laughter is ...

Abstract Previous research highlights the potential benefits of engaging with depressive Internet memes for those experiencing symptoms depression, a phenomenon that can be explained by humorous interpretation stimuli and perceived social support through symptom normalization. We examined whether individuals would differ from controls in their related to whilst incorporating mediating role humo...

This scoping study examines the relation of the sense of humor and three dispositions toward ridicule and being laughed at to psychopathic personality traits. Based on self-reports from 233 adults, psychopathic personality traits were robustly related to enjoying laughing at others, which most strongly related to a manipulative/impulsive lifestyle and callousness. Higher psychopathic traits cor...

Human emotions, such as anxiety, depression, fear, joy, and laughter, profoundly affect psychological and physiological processes. These emotions form a set of basic, evolved functions that are shared by all humans. Laughter is part of a universal language of basic emotions that all humans recognize. Health care providers and educators may utilize the power of laughter to improve health and enh...

In the present study, the defense styles were assessed in alcohol-dependent patients to verify whether they used less adaptive defense mechanisms compared with healthy controls and to evaluate if immature defense styles (IDSs) are related with alexithymia, while controlling the effect of age, temperament, and character on this relationship in male alcohol-dependent inpatients. Participants were...

Those MIT faculty who mentioned the Harvard project all agreed that it did little 'to improve teaching performance. Mattuck said it might be counterproductive by driving away good professors who might not wish to subject themselves to the. style. typical of the guide's evaluations, while Humanities Chairman Richard Douglass charged that the comments seemed written more for humor and wit than co...

Two studies investigated the relationship between wisdom, humor styles, comic and wellbeing. In Study 1, 325 English-speaking college students completed Self-Assessed Wisdom Scale (SAWS) Humor Styles Questionnaire. As predicted, overall as well all five wisdom subscales, was positively correlated with adaptive styles. Furthermore, SAWS subscale most strongly 2, 189 German-speaking university ad...