Dear Joachim;

I think I will just have to follow your suggestions/bookmark and started to think you might have all the answers I have in mind. Thank you again.I will owe you my grad.paper I'm afraid.

There are consistent evidence about some of the effects that dopamine exerts over learning. More specifically for example, based on the role that dopamine plays on reward processing, you should find a large list of works focusing on the field of reinforcement learning and dopamine.

Highly interesting are those works done in the field of Parkinson’s disease, were dopamine depletion occurs and dopaminergic levels are pharmacologically managed. You can find many on these searching for “Parkinson’s disease learning dopamine”.

In addition, other interesting works focuses in healthy population and are based on the effects over learning of the striatal dopamine levels (modulated for example by different polymorphisms).

So in sum, focusing your search in “learning dopamine” through Pubmed will be sufficient as to find a large number of works covering for your questions.

Thank you very much Saul. That would do it for my own dopamine today. I am about to find a relation between humor-dopamine-learning. That will not be easy but your comments help me for sure.

Leyla, Do you plan to use MRI or fMRI to measure the effect of humor to learning. I believe there are studies on humor and health during the 80s.

Look for the studies on Laughter Yoga, I haven't yet found something specifically on dopamina, but maybe it already exists.

Let me know.

Maria A. Bàlzola

I would appreciate to learn from Leyla's study when she finalized her data.

Hi Linda: Unfortunately, I won't have any time to conduct any resarch myself since I am working as coordinator and teacher for Business English 8-5pm in a private college :( I can barely finish my graduate studies even that started to be a challenge now. But yes, when I hopefully be able to deliver a graduation paper, it could only be a literature review, ( I do't even have time to have a thesis !!) I am a former actor/political satirist and comedian in my home country and had been using my 'laughter indusing' skills in very challenging ESL concepts such as IELTS and Business English in Vancouver, realising especially 'serious ' stuff needs to smile and humour opens so many cognitive doors in students brains. That's the reason why I decided to focus on that topic. I can only dream about having a research or publication about it. (thank you for listening, I will have to send you a psychiatrist fee :)

I will attach my grad paper, when finalised, just for you or whoever is interested when I hopefully survive until then.

Thank you, Leyla,

I have read and heard the effectiveness of using laughing to cure disease during the 80s. Your skill will benefit many people. I wish you the best with your paper.