Is motor inhibition during laughter due to emotional or respiratory influences?

Abstract:

:We compared the effects of laughter and several respiratory movements on spinal motor excitability to unravel their respective influences. We measured H-reflexes in 13 healthy volunteers during 10 different tasks (including laughter, simulated laughter, and various respiratory movements). We compared the percentage that remained of the initial H-reflex during each task with that during a neutral task. H-reflex percentage differed between the neutral task (79.4 +/- 16.1%), true laughter (43.7 +/- 17.9%), and simulated laughter (66.6 +/- 24.3%), and between the two latter tasks. Coughing also resulted in H-reflex suppression, but not as deeply as true laughter. During the other respiratory maneuvers, the H-reflex increased compared to the neutral task. Our finding that true laughter evoked more H-reflex depression than simulated laughter suggests that mirth on its own depresses the H-reflex. This mechanism may also be involved in the pathophysiology of cataplexy, the main symptom of narcolepsy.

journal_name

Psychophysiology

journal_title

Psychophysiology

authors

Overeem S,Taal W,Ocal Gezici E,Lammers GJ,Van Dijk JG

doi

10.1111/j.1469-8986.2003.00145.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-03-01 00:00:00

pages

254-8

issue

2

eissn

0048-5772

issn

1540-5958

pii

PSYP145

journal_volume

41

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