[extropy-chat] why do we stop laughing?

[Gina Miller]

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: scerir 
  To: ExI chat list 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 11:48 PM
  Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] why do we stop laughing?


  > But what actually occurs in our brains to allow us
  > to stop laughing? 
  > spike

  Laughing is, perhaps, controlled in a different part 
  of our brain, so when other places in our brain go to 
  sleep, the laughing center takes over. And viceversa.
  Ok this does not explain anything! 
  s. 

  In 1840 a dentist named Horace Wells had the idea that, 
  with the recently discovered "exhilarating or laughing gas", 
  teeth might be extracted without pain. Under its influence 
  he had one of his own teeth pulled in 1844 and afterwards 
  frequently used it in his practice. Before a class at the 
  Massachusetts General Hospital, Wells gave a demonstration 
  with a patient. Things did not go too well. The patient 
  suffered great pain. Wells became depressed, addicted 
  (to chloroform, another anesthetic agent) and in 1848 
  committed suicide. More at:
  http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/nitrous_two/

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