This past week I saw two articles relating to laughter and I thought some comic relief would be good for you. One of the articles was about tickling rats....yes that is right tickling rats.
http://www.seeker.com/when-tickled-rats-giggle-at-a-supersonic-level-2088268601.html
https://www.wired.com/2013/09/tickling-rats-for-science/
The other article was about how laughter may be the best pain medicine. Laughing with your friends not only makes you feel better, but it may improve your overall health. I just spent at least an hour looking for funny videos. This one is pretty good, but I know that you are all experts at finding funny videos.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-laughter-may-be-the-best-pain-medicine/
Pick which ever article that you like best and write a scholarly paragraph indicate which article you read and explain what you learned. Do you think neuroscience is interesting? Why or why not? Remember to write at least 5 sentences. While I think kids are funny, my 12 year old insists that funny cat videos will make you laugh more. Include your own funny video clip at the end of your post for an extra credit point.
I read the Scientific American article that was about laughter and how it releases endorphins. It was discovered that laughing just like exercise and other activities releases these “feel-good chemicals”. It stated that endorphins raise pain tolerance, and that laughing would bring up pain tolerance. There was a study where people were exposed to funny things, and the results was that people had 10 percent more tolerance to pain. I do believe neuroscience is interesting in many ways. I find it interesting because something as minor as laughing can cause you to release endorphins, and have higher pain tolerance.
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One of the things I’ve always been interested in was the brain. I chose to look into the last article on, “Why Laughter May Be the Best Pain Medicine”. Something that I learn in this article that surprised me was the fact that, “Until now, scientists haven't proven that like exercise and other activities, laughing causes a release of so-called endorphins”(Welsh para. 2). In activities such as exercise, excitement, pain, spicy food, and love, we can release these chemicals in our brain called “endorphins”. Endorphins naturally kill pain in our body and affect our mood. This is similar to serotonin, but has a more intense affect. I think that neuroscience is an interesting topic because there's no standard answer to the questions it brings. For example, if a person asked why he/she was feeling the way he/she was, there would be endless answers that can vary from person to person. I like this, because you can’t get bored hearing the same thing over and over. Below is a video on my favorite two thing, food and exercise.
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I have heard many rumors about laughter, such as it reduces the chances of getting depressed, it can increase the self-esteem of a person, but I’ve never heard of laughter reducing someone's pain. I didn’t know that when you laugh, you release endorphins inside your body, which then in turn, increases your pain threshold. However, this makes sense to me because if I do something stupid and I hurt myself, my friends will laugh, which makes me laugh. And now that I think about it, when I am hurt and start laughing, the pain is reduced a little bit. It’s really fascinating how the body and mind work, so neuroscience would be a really cool profession. I have a friend who’s sister plans on going into that field.
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I chose to read the last article (scientific american) and I learned about the different endorphins and how they release chemicals throughout bodies that trigger a buzz. Along with this feeling the amount of real laughter one exhibits may have a connection to the amount of pain someone can ignore. While reading this article I also learned about why endorphins are released and how true laughter can cause physical exhaustion. I do think that neuroscience is very interesting because it is the answers the questions that every person wonders about their own bodies. Here a clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9oxyswY8fs
ReplyDeleteHumans decisions can be affected by how they’re feeling. Rats experience the same thing. After being taught to pull a certain lever to receive food and pulling a different lever to get shocked the rats were tickled. The rats that giggled after being tickled often pulled the lever that gives them food. Rats that were tickled were more optimistic and chose to be rewarded instead of being shocked. I think neuroscience is pretty interesting, understanding how the the brain works and why we do the things we do does seem fascinating .Imagine being the scientist who get to come home after a day of tickling rats and listening for its giggles.
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After reading the article "Why laughter may be the best pain medicine" I learned that laughter releases endorphins that make you feel better. Not only does laughing make you feel better emotionally, but it also increases pain tolerance. After several tests scientists learned that after people had laughed a lot they could withstand pain for longer than they could before they laughed. I think that this is super interesting because something so simple and something people do on a daily basis can make you feel better and reduce the pin you feel. It makes me wonder what simple things we can do in life to make us feel better without a lot of effort. It's nice to know that making someone laugh could brighten their day significantly.
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I read the second article and found it interesting rats were able to laugh I thought only humans could do it. Also I think that this was a genius experiment because what better way to find emotions than laughter. Rats are kind of like humans because they laugh when they are tickled more than any other thing that makes them laugh.They said that they tickled the rats assertively so I wonder if a rat ever tried to bite back.To me I found it cool that the rats that were tickled were more optimistic so they are like people in the fact that happier people are more optimistic and depressed people are pessimistic. I really liked the video where the meerkat was laughing it made me laugh.
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I read the article by seeker.com. It told me that when animals, mammals to be more specific can relieve stress and anger by being tickled or forced to laugh. In this instance the lab rat was actually a rat. They were put through tests that put them in points of high stress, but then tickled. The scientists found out that after tickling the rats, the stress level of the rats dropped dramatically, showing that tickling relieves stress.
ReplyDeleteI chose to read the article from Scientific American, “Why Laughter May Be The Best Pain Medicine.” This article is about how laughter releases endorphins which make you feel good. I learned that laughter can improve your overall health, also because of the endorphins released, after laughing your pain tolerance goes up. This reminds me of when someone is sad, to cheer them up you generally try to make them laugh. It is believed that endorphins are released from the abdominal muscles from breathing so heavily, just like after exercising, this triggers the muscles to release them. I think that neuroscience is interesting, although I don’t know much about it. I’d like to learn more and I think psychology is also interesting so it may be something i’d like.
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After reading, Why Laughter May Be the Best Pain Medicine by Jennifer Welsh, I learned several new things about laughter and the brain chemical released (endorphins) that make you feel good. Researchers executed several tests to determine whether or not endorphins increase human ability to ignore pain. The participants were tested both in groups and individually, first the participants were tested to establish their pain threshold, next they watched funny video clips, and once again their pain levels were test. In all case, after the participants laughed their pain thresholds increased by ten percent. I indeed find neuroscience to be interesting because in my personal opinion the human brain is so fascinating and something minimal such as laughter could not only potentially impact your mood and emotions on a daily basis but your pain tolerance is equally fascinating.
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ReplyDeleteI read the article Why Laughter May Be The Best Pain Medicine. After I read this article I realized that I knew some of what was in it, but I didn’t know the background information. When you laugh, it increases your pain tolerance because laughing release “feel good” chemicals. Feel good chemicals are what help to relieve the pain. Some test have proven the you can withstand pain for a longer period of time after you laugh than before you laugh. I think that it’s very interesting that something so little, like laughing, can take pain away. I’ve always been scared to laugh when I hurt myself because I think that will make it worse, but now I know that it helps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9oxyswY8fs
Laughter is a part of life for humans, but for rats too? In 1990, a test was ran to see if rat’s have the ability to have emotions associated with optimism and pessimism by neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp. They tested this starting with tickling the rats to see their responses; they knew that humans are more optimistic if they are laughing and happy so they wanted to see if it was the same for rats. The scientists tickled half the rats and put them all in a situation where they press a lever for food or an unpleasant shock. It was found out that the rats that were tickled and in a better mood were more likely to choose the food unlike the rats that weren’t tickled. Neuroscience is so interesting to me, it’s basically the base for any other research within animals. It betters our world as a whole and helps us live longer, healthier, and happier. I would be willing to learn more about it on my own time because I just think that it’s so cool. We understand ourselves, others, and the animals around us because of neuroscience.
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Ticking rats for Science
ReplyDeleteHumans emotions very obviously control our thinking and decision making. It has been hard to be able to know an animal's exact emotion but not with tickling rats. In a test in the 1990’s by neuroscientist jaak panksepp they gave rats stimulations like tickling to test how they would react. To put it simply, when the rats were tickled, they laughed. The next test was to see if the rats would be more optimistic and take more risks while happy. First they taught the rats that one lever gave out food and another lever gave out an electric shock. Once the rats had learned they separated them into 2 groups in which one group was tickled and the other group was just handled. They put the rats back into a cage and put a neutral lever and the rats that were tickled had more courage and pushed it, because they thought it was going to be food. One catch though, only the rats that enjoyed tickling became more optimistic. Some humans dislike being tickled like rats which i thought was interesting.
I read the article,"Why Laughter May Be The Best Pain Medicine."I learned that laughter might turn on the brains endorphin's.Endorphin's are pain-relieving chemicals that are created in response to exercise,excitement,pain,spicy food, and love.These endorphin's not only give us a "buzz" but raise the ability to ignore pain.New research has indicated that laughing with friends releases feel-good brain chemicals,which helps also relieve pain.Researchers believe that endorphin's that accompany true laughter which causes physical exhaustion of the abdominal muscles.When laughter is elicited,pain thresholds are significantly increased.
ReplyDeleteThe article I read was Why Laughter May Be the Best Pain Medicine. This article talked about studies done on people where they tested their pain tolerance, showed them a funny video, then retested it again. What I learned from this is that when you are not feeling great, all you have to do is look up funny videos on youtube. I think neuroscience is very interesting. Just looking at the brain can tell you so much about that person.
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I read the article “Why Laughter May Be the Best Pain Medicine”. It talked about how laughter can release endorphins, which are brain chemicals that relieve pain. Several tests were done on people to see if laughter really did cause endorphins. First, scientists would test a person's pain tolerance. Then, they would show the participants a funny video, and test their pain tolerance again. Each time, they found that people's pain threshold increased 10% during the second test. I find neuroscience very interesting. It’s crazy to think that such a simple task, like laughing, can change our entire mood and how we handle pain.
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I read the article by seeker.com. In the article, I found out that tickling can relieve the stress and induce happiness in rats. How much happiness is felt, however, can depend on whether or not the rat is uncomfortable or in a state of serenity. If the rat is uneasy tickling has little effect, and vice versa. After reading this I can say that I find neuroscience very interesting. Not only does this experiment show the effect of tickling on rats, but this experiment could also be applied to humans.
ReplyDeleteThe article that I read was why laughter might be the best pain medicine. The article gave results on test done on people to see if laughing reduced pain. It turns out it doesn't reduce pain but in fact makes your body ignore it more. I think neuroscience is very interesting. After all the brain is our most complex organ in our bodies.
ReplyDeleteI read the article "When Tickled, Rats Giggle at a Supersonic Level". In the artical it explains how its not just humans who are effected by tickling. There are nuerons in most mammles brains that when stimulated cause lauphter/happyness. With this information, there are so many posibilities. For example, this could be the key to new types of theropy for depression.The article adresses that animals may even have a sense of humor, but this accusation has been hard to assess. The article also explains how when organisms are placed in uncomfterable or high risk situations, they seem to be less open to being tickled. This could be due to adaption, probably so that when put under high amounts of stress, they will be able to handle it. In my oppinion,neuroscience is interesting, because there is so much that we dont know about the brain and how it works.
ReplyDeleteI chose to read the "Why Laughter May be the Best Pain Medicine", and I agree that laughing can cure many things. When I am feeling sad, a funny joke will usually bring me out of it. Or if I'm mad, a good joke will make my frown turn upside down. I also watched some of the baby videos and they were very funny as well. Even when I see someone laughing very hard I usually start to laugh with them no matter how funny the joke was.
ReplyDeleteThe article I chose to read was the one about how scientists tickled rats to study whether or not it affected their optimism. After the experiment, scientists found that the tickled rats were clearly more optimistic than the ones that weren’t. They later used this data to compare with how humans acted, and to try and understand how mental disorders come about, what causes depression, and why some of “us” find it hard to be happy. Overall the process proved to be a success, and many hope it will be a vital stepping stone for future investigations.
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From what I know of Neuroscience, I do find it interesting because you get to study many interesting things such as if laughing changes how you are. The article said that those rats that like to be tickled were more friendly and were able to handle stress better. Also, the way rats get tickled is pretty funny if you ask me. I think laughing has the same results for a human as a=it does to a rat. Its interesting how a simple laugh can change your vibe to a great one. Because when I laugh, it feels like a natural high as it makes me calm and forget about any worries I had in my head at that moment. What I got from this article is that if you're looking for a good change of vibe, take a laugh.
Heres a link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyL-p6QdHAY
I read the article talking about rats getting tickled and emitting laughter. I learned that the absence of touch results in the need for pleasure. So when the rats are tickled, they show signs of happiness, just like humans do. I learned that it is the hormone dopamine that makes you laugh and smile. The article also mentioned that when the rats were put up on a high ledge, they were stressed and their laughter was less than what it was before they were placed in that situation. I think Neuroscience is interesting because it helps us better understand the feelings of humans and it helps us find out ways to help people with mental illnesses such as depression or anxiety.
ReplyDeleteI took a lot of information away from the article “Why Laughter May Be the Best Pain Medicine”. First off, laughing releases endorphins, chemicals in our body that are released in response to excitement, pain, or even spicy foods. Laughing endorphins give us - in theory - a “buzz” almost like an adrenaline rush that helps us ignore pain. One of the tests ran were subjecting participants to uncomfortable to slightly painful things- such as wine coolers or a blood pressure cuff around their arms. These tests were performed once without laughter and once with a solid laugh before being subjected to these trials; results showed that the average of the group pain tolerance level increased by 10% after laughter. Who knew that something everyone does has such a cool effect on your body?
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I read the article on rats laughing for science and it ironically made me laugh. I also think it’s really cool that we see rats and other mammals as pure animals with animal instincts no emotion and then we see rats laugh that just blows my mind. In the article it also talked about how after the rats were tickled they showed happy traits and optimistic thinking. Another thing was that since the rats laughing was tied to temperament they could create a generation of laughing rats. And neuroscience which of course studies this type of thing is even cooler I in fact am taking AP psychology next year and am very excited. The reason why I think neuroscience is interesting is because it makes us who we are as people and gives us our traits. And here is that funny video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvdW86xcnco
ReplyDeleteI chose to read the first article, the Seeker.com one. I had always experienced tickling making me happier, as long as I was in a comfortable environment. I had never really thought of the neuroscience behind it or how it might connect us to other mammals. Certain other mammals, such as rats, rabbits, meerkats and others also are "happier" when tickled. Often when they are tickled they give off a sort of laughter and are less anxious or sad. Like humans though, if they are put in an uncomfortable situation this tickling will not relieve their tension and the unwanted touch may stress them out more. The neurotransmitters that go to both our brains and the brains of other mammals when we are tickled connects us both and makes us happier, calmer individuals.
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After reading the article "Why Laughter May Be the Best Pain Medicine", I learned some new things about neuroscience. The article was talking about the different studies that were done on people where they tested their pain tolerance, showed them a funny video, and then tested it again. I soon realized that when I'm down, all I have to do is look up a funny video on YouTube to make myself feel better. Neuroscience is very interesting, but complicated at the same time.
ReplyDeleteI read the article “Why Laughter May Be the Best Pain Medicine”. I learned that laughter releases endorphins, because the physical exhaustion of the abdominal muscles spark the endorphins. Another thing I learned was that because of the endorphins that gives us a rush they help us ignore the pain. Which I thought was pretty cool. Not only it releases endorphins but the action of laughing releases feel good chemicals which is good for the human body. As for my opinion on neuroscience I think it’s really neat and to learn about the function of the brain and nervous system. The idea of discovering something new involving the nervous system and brain is just so interesting.
ReplyDeleteThe article I chose to read is the Scientific American article about how laughter can be the best pain medicine and how laughter can release endorphins. I learned that laughter can improve your health and can tolerate pain. Researchers have tested on average just watching 15 minutes of comedy in a group increased pain threshold by 10 percent. These results are because of the endorphins that are released throughout our bodies. I think neuroscience is interesting because if just laughing can improve our health and tolerate pain is fascinating.
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I read Seekers’ article, “When Tickled, Rats Giggle at a Supersonic Level”. In a way, when people say that animals only ‘run off of instinct’, they are running off our own hypocritical ways. Studies like these clearly show that animals run off of more than just instinct. When animals can show emotions, it tells us they may be more like us than we think. Not only this, but creatures that are historically thought of as rodents to show a spectrum of feeling similar to a human just shows how misunderstood they are. ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PYHlvbeyyY
ReplyDeleteI read the first article, “When Tickled, Rats Giggle at a Supersonic Level”. This article explains how new research is pointing to the fact that even though rats and humans don’t have a lot in common, rats are ticklish and giggle at a ‘supersonic level’ like humans. The rats laugh because neurons in the somatosensory cortex are released and the rats are caused to laugh just like humans are. Dopamine, happy hormones, are released and that is why the rats are very happy when tickled. This doesn’t necessarily mean that all animals are ticklish; for instance mice aren’t, but rats being tickled and laughing is a scientific breakthrough and is quite amazing.
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I have always been interested in the brain, and I was looking forward to read about how laugher plays into neurology. I read the Scientific America article, Why laughter may be the best pain medicine. As it turns out laughter is the best medicine, when you laugh your brain releases pain relieving chemicals. When you're around friends your, 30 times more likely to laugh then by yourself. Participants in experiments showed less increase in pain threshold than those in a group when they were subjected to 15 minutes of comedy. Overall I think laughter is great for ignoring pain and staying happy, so I know I'll keep doing it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9oxyswY8fs
ReplyDeleteI read the article "Why Laughter May Be the Best Pain Medicine" which taught me that for awhile we hadn't proved laughing was the best medicine, but we did however test that pain-relieving chemicals are released when laughing. They are called Endorphins. The chemicals are released when we are excited, are exercising, when we eat spicy foods, and when we fall in love. The researchers test peoples pain tolerance, then they upped the pain tolerance to measure the amount of Endorphin that was released while watching funny shows. The results were insightful. When the subjects were under pain while watching TV their Endorphin jumped. Their pain tolerance was 10% increased. So it's safe to say that laughter is the best medicine.
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I read the article on seaker.com. I found it very interesting because I never knew that anyone besides humans could "get forced to laugh." The scientsist preformed various procedures on the rat that where highly stressful and found convulsive evidence that being forced to laugh relieves stress.This can be applied to humans also. I believe that laughter is the best medicine and found the meerkat video hysterical.
ReplyDeleteI chose the article “Why Laughter May Be the Best Pain Medicine” and I learned that laughing could be a pain reliever. In the article it talked about how when you laugh good chemicals called endorphins are produced. Also, in the article it says that when you laugh it makes your ability to ignore pain higher. When scientists did tests the results showed that when people watched a funny video together their pain threshold levels went up by 10% whereas if the video was watched lone the pain threshold barely moved.
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After a stressful day or painful accident, laughter can be proven to improve your mood immediately. In the article Why Laughter May Be The Best Pain Medicine, I had gained knowledge on why laughter is relieving of pain. Laughter releases a chemical in your brain called Endorphins. These causes you to have more tolerance to pain, so it’s not as harmful. As little as ten minutes can momentarily improve your pain tolerance as much as 10%. One thing I believe is very interesting around this topic is that my view of what's funny can be annoying, or cruel to others.
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I read “Why Laughter May Be the Best Pain Medicine” by Jennifer Walsh. For years, scientists haven’t been able to figure out why we laugh. Being that there was very little research on the subject, Robin Dunbar and colleagues at Oxford University decided to test it out. They monitored participants’ ability to tolerate pain before and after laughing; they found that after watching 15 minutes of comedy increased the pain threshold by 10 percent. The reason? When we laugh, our brains release endorphins. Endorphins are “feel-good” chemicals that our brain releases during exercise, excitement, and times of physical pain. Endorphins raise our ability to ignore pain. Neuroscience is amazing. The human brain is the most complex structure we’ve encountered. Without it, none of us would be here. The brain makes you learn new material in school and it remembers your name and decides that there isn’t enough sugar in your coffee. The brain is what’s making me type this paragraph about brains. My brain is researching itself. Neuroscience is crazy.
ReplyDeleteI read "When Tickled, Rats Giggle at a Supersonic Level". According to the article, stimulating the neurons in the brain that are tied to ticklishness and laughter cause the rats to laugh. Those neurons are located in the somatosensory cortex, near the center of the brain. While watching them Brecht noticed that when the rodents were stressed out their tickling-evoked laughter and corresponding neuron firing were significantly suppressed. He thinks that the suppression of fun-related behaviors in mammals could be adaptive, meaning that we protect ourselves against unwanted touch and interactions, especially when we are at unease. As a result, he found that humans aren’t the only mammals that are ticklish, there are many other mammals that are and we all react in very similar ways. Even just the thought of being tickled is enough to activate the neurons because of changes in neuronal firing by dopamine and other neuromodulators.
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After reading Why Laughter May Be The Best Pain Medicine, ai learned laughter actually increased pain tolerance! Who would have known! The article was about people who would undergo some sort of pain tolerance test as they were watching a funny program. Compared to the people who didn't watch a funny program, the pain tolerance in people who laughed increased! To me, neuroscience doesn't seem all that interesting. The reason I don't like neuroscience is because the brain just doesn't fascinate me all the lag much. I would much rather learn about life of wild animals or something of that nature.
ReplyDeleteIt is scientifically proven that rats laugh when tickled. When rats are in good moods they emit ultrasonic giggles. Animals may actually have a sense of humor! Neuroscience is interesting because it amazes me how much we don’t know about other living animals. In another level they are actually pretty similar to humans! In one article they said that tickling is a way to make animals interact in certain ways. Humans also aren't the only mammals that jump for joy...rats, sheep, guinea pigs, and rabbits. Rats laughing helped them relieve stress too, just like humans.
ReplyDeleteI read the article about tickling rats for science. I thought it was interesting to read about what affected the laughter. Also I didn't really know that rats could laugh. I think how they are finding that some animals laugh and some don't or they haven't really hound a way to make them laugh is interesting. Going to be honest tickling rats sound like a pretty fun job even though it's just an experiment. I do think neuroscience is kinda interesting I still don't know a ton about it but from what I've read it seems really interesting.
ReplyDeleteI read the article “Why Laughter May Be The Best Pain Medicine”. I learned that laughing releases feel-good brain chemicals that relieve pain.There was tests being performed on people to see if laughter really does help. First they tested their pain level and then they exposed them to humorous videos. It was interesting that these chemicals are also released during exercise. You can get the same chemicals laughing as doing physical activity.
ReplyDeleteThe article I chose to read is the Scientific American article about how laughter can be the best pain medicine and how laughter can release endorphins. I learned that laughter can improve your health and can tolerate pain. Researchers have tested on average just watching 15 minutes of comedy in a group increased pain threshold by 10 percent. These results are because of the endorphins that are released throughout our bodies. I think neuroscience is interesting because if just laughing can improve our health and tolerate pain is fascinating.
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I read the article about tickling rats. I think the fact that animals can have a sense of humor is amazing and really interesting. A lot of questions pop up with this statement, such as "what would really make and animal 'laugh'?" or "does every animal have a sense of humor?" I think this is something that should be further studied and could really just make us even closer to animals than we thought due to more and more similarities.
ReplyDeleteI read the article "Why Laughter May Be The Best Pain Medicine". The article showed how laughter releases endorphins. These endorphins are chemicals that help you feel relaxed and feel higher levels of pain tolerance. Also laughter helps raise the pain threshold. When you use laughter,you feel less pain and more at ease. It is nice to know such a simple way to relax and not experience much pain. Also I think that neuroscience is very interesting. You get to see how the brain reacts and how it affects the body. My friends brother who graduated at Crystal Lake South High School is attending Michigan State as a start and then going to Michigan to become a neurosurgeon. He is very smart and I think that he could do it.
ReplyDeleteI read the article "Why Laughter May Be The Best Medicine" this article taught me that laughter makes you more optimistic. Though I am not interested in neuroscience it is still cool how something as simple as laughing can give you a more positive attitude. I also wondered while reading the article if laughter may be a possible remedy for people with depressions. The reason that neuroscience is not interesting to me because I don't think that studying the brain is that cool. I do think that the biology aspect of this experiment is cool because I am very interested in biology.
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I chose the article "Tickling Rats For Science." I learned that rats laugh like people and that when they are ticked, they produce a a unique ultrasonic vocalization. After the rats were tickled they underwent an experiment to see if they were more optimistic. It showed that the rats that were tickled showed more optimism than the rats that weren't. I think that neuroscience is pretty interesting because it's cool to learn more about brains and have a better understanding of animals.
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I read the article Why Laughter May Be the Best Pain Medicine. This article was about how endorphins released because of laughter decreases the amount of pain people feel. They ran test of people's pain with and without laughter and the people with laughter had a higher pain tolerance than the ones without laughter. I think neuroscience is interesting because a boy on my hockey teams parents are both doctors, the mom is a cardiac surgeon and the other is a neurologist.
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https://youtu.be/8F9jXYOH2c0 I think this video is funnier.
ReplyDeleteI read the article about laughter being the best pain medicine and found out some very interesting and new information out. It was first explained at the start of the article that laughing causes the release of endorphins, "feel-good brain chemicals, which also relieve pain" as the article said. Along with the feel-good mentality it gives us the article also made the point about how it "raises our ability to ignore pain." A statistic from the article said "on average, watching about 15 minutes of of comedy in a group increased pain threshold by 10%." What was said at the end of the article really summed it all up well. The last sentence of the article talked about how the physical exhaustion of the abdominal muscles play a key role in triggering the release of endorphins. While I had always heard the saying "laughter is the best medicine" I can now say I have a bit of knowledge to back that up.
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The article Why Laughter Miay Be The Bets Pain Medicine explains that laughing has many benefits for your brain because it releases chemicals called endorphins, the same ones release when you workout, which make you feel good. The article also shows that patients pain tolerance shot up after laughing and give us a "buzz". The study showed patients given a comedy video and then wrapping their arms in a frozen sleeve or blood pressure cuff until the patient could no longer handle the pain, and across all tests the tolerance was higher.Neuroscience is very interesting to me because it's not something that you can physically see it like other sciences and it is always changing, and there is always something new being discovered.
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ReplyDeleteI chose to write about the last article. I thought it was interesting that laughter increases your pain threshold. This is because when you laugh, endorphins are released from your body. Endorphins are like brain chemicals and when they are released from your body, they are supposed to make you feel good. Researchers believe that true laughter, caused by physical exhaustion of the abdominal muscles and then trigger the release of endorphins.
I read the article "Why Laughter May Be the Best Pain Medicine" and learned some very interesting things. The article said that when you laugh you produce endorphins, the brain's "feel-good" chemicals, which also relieves pain. Study researcher Robin Dunbar, of the University of Oxford, stated that when your watching comedy your pain tolerance jumps. I was amazed when I read this, I cant believe that when you laugh you feel less pain. I think neuroscience is very interesting.
ReplyDeleteThe article I read was about the laughing, giggling rats. Neurons located in the somatosensory cortex are stimulated when rats laugh or are tickled. Many mammals share this type of simulation. Proving that this may even lead to different therapies for depressed patients. Laughing releases hormones, like dopamine, that increase your mood in a positively way. Just like how rats are not willing to be tickled by someone they don't feel comfortable with, our happy moods tends to decrease in situations we don't like.
ReplyDeleteI read the article about tickling mice. Apparently, when mice are tickled, they emit ultrasonic giggles, who knew? Also, I learned that it is the hormone dopamine that makes you laugh and smile.After the experiment, scientists found that the tickled rats were clearly more optimistic than the ones that weren’t. They used this data to how mental disorders come about. Honestly, I don't find neuroscience is that interesting. It just depends, i guess. Most of the time it seems really boring to me, it's not my cup of tea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhSkXeb9oCg
ReplyDeleteI decided to read the last article about the correlation between laughing and endorphins. When you laugh there is a neurological reaction that sends a signal to the brain that makes you feel good. You can find this same chemical relation whole working out. I also read about how laughing actually relieves pain that you have. The laugh has to actually be real and cause exhaustion of muscles to trigger these responses throughout your body. This type of science that looks at the nuerological reactions in the brain is very complex but very interesting at the same time. Overall, this was a very cool article where I learned a lot of stuff to help me boost my mood if I'm having a bad day and why I can do this.
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I read the article about rats laughing. This article interested me because laughing always makes me feel better and to know that it's a true. Nuero science does interest me but it is not something I will go crazy about. Knowing that even rats can laugh makes me sure that human thing like being happy is not just a human thing.
ReplyDeleteI chose to read the article " When Tickled, Rats Giggle At Supersonic Level". The article looked at the effects tickling and happiness have on rats. During experiments, when rats were comfortable/at ease in a given situation, the tickling resulted in the rats emitting ultrasonic giggles. The stimulation of neurons in the somatonsensory cortex near center of the brain is what caused the rats to laugh. Laughter triggers the release of the "happy hormone" known as dopamine. This results in a happy, positive mood. This research is key to the discovery of new therapies to treat depression in humans. I've always been intrigued by cause & effect analysis, so neuroscience has really piqued my interest.
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I read the article about laughter being the best pain medicine. The article talked about how when people laugh, our pain thresholds increase greatly. It has to do with the release of endorphins in our brains. To figure this out, they had people do wall sits at live shows to see how long they could last. While laughing may be beneficial to the pain threshold, I wonder if it is worth the effort to make yourself laugh when working out. Because while yes, your pain threshold is extended while laughing, it is also a distraction to the focus you need to commit to in order to successfully exercise.
I read When Tickled, Rats Giggle at a Supersonic Level
ReplyDeleteThe article explains the complex connections between situation and emotion
An example is when the rats were placed upon a high pedestal and ticked they showed little brain activity compared to when they were comfortable. A break through in the human relation between depression and happiness.