# Humour uncovers the wide landscape of life: From laughter to freedom

**Authors:** Vladimir Leksa

PMC · DOI: 10.1038/s44319-025-00494-6 · 2025-06-03

## TL;DR

Humour plays a vital role in health, relationships, and society by promoting peace and resilience against negativity.

## Contribution

Highlights humour's multifaceted impact on personal and societal well-being.

## Key findings

- Humour supports physical and mental health.
- It strengthens relationships and fosters open societies.
- Humour helps resist madness and evil.

## Abstract

Humour is an important tool to maintain our physical and mental health, cultivate our marriages and relationships, build open societies, keep the peace, and defend against madness and evil.

## Full-text entities

- **Genes:** OXT (oxytocin/neurophysin I prepropeptide) [NCBI Gene 5020] {aka OT, OT-NPI, OXT-NPI}, OXTR (oxytocin receptor) [NCBI Gene 5021] {aka OT-R, OTR}, SLC6A4 (solute carrier family 6 member 4) [NCBI Gene 6532] {aka 5-HTT, 5-HTTLPR, 5HTT, HTT, OCD1, SERT}
- **Diseases:** Bell's palsy (MESH:D020330), paralysis of facial muscles (MESH:D005158), Duchenne (MESH:D020388), autoimmune disease of the spinal vertebrae (MESH:D001327), ankylosing spondylitis (MESH:D013167), colic (MESH:D003085), hypersensitivity (MESH:D004342), paranoid (MESH:D010259), pneumonia (MESH:D011014), Bekhterev's disease (MESH:D004194), seizures (MESH:D012640)
- **Chemicals:** Iron (MESH:D007501), aspirin (MESH:D001241), serotonin (MESH:D012701), dopamine (MESH:D004298)
- **Species:** Homo sapiens (human, species) [taxon 9606], Cercopithecidae (monkey, family) [taxon 9527]
- **Mutations:** rs53576

## Figures

2 figures with captions in the complete paper: https://tomesphere.com/paper/PMC12287520/full.md

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Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/PMC12287520