laugh and it will pass . Scientific research between smiles and tears 
While in early October in Stockholm was awarded the Nobel Prize, Harvard University took place the ceremony of IgNobel , dubbed "the Nobel of the absurd." Every year - from 1991 to this part - the Improbable Research with its namesake magazine Annals of Improbable Research award recognition to those researchers who, with their publications "first make people laugh and then think" to "celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative and stimulating people's interest in science, medicine and technology." IgNobel This year's prize for medicine went to two Dutch, Simon Rietveld and Ilja van Beest, who discovered that asthma symptoms can be treated with the mountains Russian . It would seem the joke of a joker, but it's really true. Type in PubMed believing. : Rietveld S, van Beest I. Rollercoaster asthma: when positive emotional stress interferes with dyspnea perception . Behave Res There. 2007; 45:977-87. All this seems even more absurd when you consider that this research (conducted on 25 women with severe asthma and of course a control group of 15 subjects) was financed by two agencies, the Netherlands Asthma Foundation and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Just out of curiosity, in this study the stress was induced by repeated turns on a roller coaster. The results showed that negative emotional stress and blood pressure have reached their peak just before the roller coaster ride, while positive emotional stress and heart rate immediately after. Furthermore, "dyspnea in women with asthma was higher just before the race compared to just after, even in subjects where there was a reduction in lung function induced by its own roller coaster." The authors conclude that "patients with chronic asthma if they tend to perceive stress and stimulates the association acquired in terms of dyspnea, wheezing, and families between positive or negative moods, promoting or under-perception or over-perception of dyspnea, depending on the emotional valence of a situation. " Translated in simple terms: if an asthmatic like roller coasters, you forget all her body a bit 'of his dyspnoea ...
Gianluca Tornese
Pediatrics
IRCCS "Burlo Garofolo", Trieste
Read the complete editorial published in the December issue of Medical and Child
laugh and it will pass. Scientific research between smiles and tears
While in early October in Stockholm was awarded the Nobel Prize, Harvard University took place the ceremony of IgNobel , dubbed "the Nobel of the absurd." Every year - from 1991 to this part - the Improbable Research with its namesake magazine Annals of Improbable Research award recognition to those researchers who, with their publications "first make people laugh and then think" to "celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative and stimulating people's interest in science, medicine and technology." 
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