People's experiences of humor vary, and humor serves many different functions in our daily lives. Sometime we use humor as a coping mechanism when things are not going well, and other times we enjoy a ...

A new review demonstrates the overall positive impact of humor therapy on depression and anxiety, which may help inform future research, policy, and practice. Humor, a nonpharmacologic intervention ...

An analysis of published studies suggests that humor therapy may lessen symptoms of depression and anxiety. For the analysis, which is published in Brain and Behavior, investigators identified 29 ...

I learned to be funny because my mother was chronically depressed. From infancy onward — through a mixture of survival instinct, emotional alchemy, and a craving for approval — my role was to ...

An analysis of published studies suggests that humor therapy may lessen symptoms of depression and anxiety. For the analysis, which is published in Brain and Behavior, investigators identified 29 ...

Lined up outside the Laugh Factory in Hollywood, it happens every Tuesday: aspiring comedians signing up to take part in Open Mic night. But the death of Robin Williams has some talking about ...

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” reads the opening of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. The latter sentiment is contradicted by the Jerome family of Neil Simon ...