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Laughter, Robert Provine
Robert R. Provine is professor of psychology and assistant director of
the neuroscience program at UMBC. He has authored over 50 research papers concerning developmental neuroscience
and the neural mechanisms of behavior, conducting studies on over 30 species, using techniques ranging from
electrophysiology and tissue culture to field studies. He came to the study of laughter and human ethology
from a background in neuroembryology, having studied and published with Nobel Prize (Rita Levi-Montalcini)
and National Medal of Science (Viktor Hamburger) winners. His most recent book, Laughter, Provine evaluates
whether you can "laugh your way to health," considers what laughter shows about neuropathology, and suggests
how to change environments to increase laughter. The first book to establish laughter as a topic of scientific
worth, Laughter includes such esoterica as the history of holy laughter, operatic laughter, laugh records,
laughing gas, canned laughter, and a description of the Tanganyikan laughter epidemic that immobilized an entire
school district during 1962.
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