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Published online 4 December 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031201-5
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Jokes activate same brain region as cocaine
Humour tickles drug centre that gives hedonistic high
There's truth in the maxim 'laughter is a drug'. A comic cartoon fired up the same brain centre as a shot of cocaine, researchers are reporting.
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