What happens in your brain when you can’t stop laughing?

When trying to study the brain networks that underlie the production of laughter, things can get very difficult very quickly.
Do you remember the last time you were laughing and simply could not stop? Perhaps it was a situation when you should not have been laughing at all. This happened to one of us while accompanying a friend to a family court in the middle of an unpleasa... [5732 chars]
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