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ReviewHNO2025

[What is happiness? And what does ENT medicine have to do with it?]

Christian Dobel, Daniel Richter, Orlando Guntinas-Lichius

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Review in HNO, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Christian DobelKlinik für Hals‑, Nasen- und Ohrenheilkunde, Universitätsklinikum Jena, Am Klinikum 1, 07747, Jena, Deutschland. christian.dobel@med.uni-jena.de.
Daniel RichterKlinik für Hals‑, Nasen- und Ohrenheilkunde, Universitätsklinikum Jena, Am Klinikum 1, 07747, Jena, Deutschland.
Orlando Guntinas-LichiusKlinik für Hals‑, Nasen- und Ohrenheilkunde, Universitätsklinikum Jena, Am Klinikum 1, 07747, Jena, Deutschland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Happiness is important to most people in our society, although it is given little importance in political and social objectives. However, happiness is an important topic in various philosophical schools and in Western philosophy, happiness goes back to Aristotelianism and Stoic philosophy. Recent longitudinal studies clearly suggest that happiness depends on interpersonal relationships. So what does otorhinolaryngology have to do with this? In our view, various basic skills that enable people to achieve social fitness, i.e., to establish short- and long-term relationships, are at the center of ENT medicine. Examples of this are hearing, olfaction, the voice, but also facial movements. The multisensory processing of various perception and expression channels creates a "social brain network" as a neuronal correlate of social skills and fitness. Consequently, otorhinolaryngology should play a central role in understanding these abilities in the context of happiness.

Indexed as

HappinessOtolaryngologyHumansCochlear implantsFacial nerve diseasesInterpersonal relationshipsOlfaction disordersTinnitus

Identifiers

PMID40293457
PMCPMC12102108

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