Laughter is not the best medicine,thats what a scientist has pointed out. In a study,Dr. Margaret Stuber,a psychiatry professor at University of California Los Angeles Medical School,studied whether laughter helped patients. After analyses,she found that distraction and mood improvement helped,but she could not find a benefit for laughter alone,reports Discovery News. "No study has shown that laughter produces a direct health benefit," Baltimore neuroscientist Robert Provine,who has studied laughter for decades. Provine added,largely because it's hard to detach laughter from just good feelings. However,he stresses it doesn't really matter: "Isn't the fact that laughter feels good when you do it,isn't that enough?" "Laughter above all else is a social thing," Provine said. "The requirement for laughter is another person." Provine,a professor with the University of Maryland Baltimore County,added: "All language groups laugh ''ha-ha-ha'' basically the same way. Whether you speak Mandarin,French or English,everyone will understand laughter. . There's a pattern generator in our brain that produces this sound."
