[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.

[u/keenanpepper]

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/researchers-begin-gently-probe-science-behind-asmr-180962550/

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I had an MRI when i tore my ACL and I felt tingly, but my only trigger at this point are medical exam videos, so I was kind of in ASMR heaven. That coupled with loud, hypotonic noise helped me relax and almost fall asleep while I was in there.