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Ryan Archer

Two Stroke Patients Laughed Hard but Felt No Joy, a Clue That the Brain Can Split Laughter From Mirth

Two men recovering from strokes in China laughed out loud, again and again, each time a magnetic coil pulsed over the same patch of their scalps. Neither man found anything funny.

"Even though it looked like laughing, it didn't feel like laughing at all," one of them told his doctors.

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