People with narcolepsy process humor differently

In a 2019 paper in Neurology, Anna Elisabetta Vaudano and her colleagues report that young people with narcolepsy have a broader pattern of metabolic activity lighting up the brain when they laugh, but do not experience cataplexy. In another recent paper published in Sleep, Norwegian researchers asked people with narcolepsy and their healthy relatives to watch movie clips that included a joke punchline, and had study participants rate the movie clips they saw. Some parts of the brains of the people with narcolepsy reacted as if the movies were funny, even though they said they didn’t find the clips funny.

Source: massivesci.com