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Spontaneous humor among right hemisphere stroke survivors.

Heath RL, Blonder LX

Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, P.O. Box 11-0236, Riad El Solh Beirut 1107-2020, Lebanon. rlheath@aub.edu.lb

We analyzed spontaneous conversational humor production and response among 11 right hemisphere-damaged (RHD) patients, 10 left hemisphere-damaged (LHD) patients, 7 normal controls (NC), and their spouses. RHD patients and their spouses reported a statistically significant decline in the patients' orientation to humor post-stroke. Also, we found a significant positive association between a RHD patient's ability to decode prosody and their self-reported orientation to humor post-stroke.

Published 2 May 2005 in Brain Lang, 93(3): 267-76.
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