"Wit and Humor as Topic" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The faculty of expressing the amusing, clever, or comical or the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
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D014925
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| MeSH Number(s) |
K01.517.946
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| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Wit and Humor as Topic" by people in Profiles.
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Impact of seductive details on the acquisition and transfer of laparoscopic suturing skills: Emotionally interesting or cognitively taxing? Surgery. 2016 09; 160(3):580-5.
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Can the use of humor in psychotherapy be taught? Acad Psychiatry. 2014 Feb; 38(1):75-81.
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Functional anatomy of humor: positive affect and chronic mental illness. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2007; 19(4):358-62.
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Sense of humor, childhood cancer stressors, and outcomes of psychosocial adjustment, immune function, and infection. J Pediatr Oncol Nurs. 2003 Nov-Dec; 20(6):271-92.
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Between two worlds medical student perceptions of humor and slang in the hospital setting. J Gen Intern Med. 2001 Aug; 16(8):544-9.
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Compassion and the art of family medicine: from Osler to Oprah. J Am Board Fam Pract. 2000 Nov-Dec; 13(6):440-8.
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Doctor talk: technology and modern conversation. Am J Med. 1995 Jun; 98(6):587-8.