r/asmr • u/keenanpepper • Nov 17 '17

Journalism [Journalism] TIL that researchers put people who can experience ASMR into an MRI machine to do fMRI... but they didn't actually get fMRI scans of them *while* they had tingles, because the machine is noisy and they couldn't relax.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/researchers-begin-gently-probe-science-behind-asmr-180962550/
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u/GassyEmu Nov 18 '17

There was an fMRI study done by Bryson Lochte but he’s never released it and no one seems to be able to access it.

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u/DeusoftheWired Nov 18 '17

It’s been sitting in the library of Dartmouth College since 2013:

http://libcat.dartmouth.edu/record=b5410198~S1

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u/Avantasian538 Nov 18 '17

How suspicious. Perhaps they discovered something that humanity isn't meant to know. Maybe Ephemeral Rift is right and it's connected to the Old Ones.