Good mood improves your health

• April 29, 2024

The sense of humor has a favorable effect on the physical and psychological health of people, so it is very useful in the treatment of patients with various diseases . In addition, it helps to respond with a positive attitude the challenges or difficulties that occur daily.

According to the professor of biochemistry and molecular biology Natalia López , the sense of humor modifies the brain in a positive way and also strengthens the body.

The also participant in the XL Seminar of Educational Centers of the University of Navarra (northern Spain), stressed that the humor responds to a "precious" brain mechanism, which is being heavily researched by the neuroscience and that originates in an area called "error detection center". When listening to a joke, the brain It processes the language and, when the story takes an absurd turn, the "central error", a region located between the two hemispheres, detects the error and synchronizes the logical and illogical narrative, explained Lopez.

By getting the error detected, the brain gets a "reward" through the release of dopamine, a hormone that generates a sense of rejoicing that ends up somatizing in a laugh that, in turn, strengthens the heart and generates healthy somatic responses.

In the next video of the university of Navarra shows the complete process that the brain to generate laughter or laughter:

However, there are some differences between the meaning of humor of men and women, because the cognitive part of it is the same, but not the emotional part.

For men, said Lopez, "what usually makes them laugh is that something is absurd," while women, "because of their mechanism of processing emotions , which is much more intense, they need absurdity to be fun; a thing that is simply absurd is not funny. " And you, how many times do you laugh a day?

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