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Further fMRI studies show that those sensitive to ASMR have increased activation in specific brain regions, including the medial prefrontal cortex (associated with self-awareness and social ...

That is, until I booked my first professional back scratch with Julie ... brains of people experiencing ASMR see spikes in neural activity in the regions of the brain associated with emotion ...