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Why does ASMR give people brain orgasms?

Stuff Mom Never Told You

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The Effects of ASMR on the Head and Neck

ASMR was originally greeted with a lot of skepticism especially from the scientific community. A neuroscientist Stephen Novella said that it's similar in that way to migraine headaches we know they exist as a syndrome primarily because many different people report the same constellation of symptoms and natural history so basically what people are experiencing is certain triggers which we'll talk about in a secondCertain triggers set off this feeling of relaxation. It's accompanied sometimes by the tingles so your scalp might tingle the sensation might go down your arms and legs and some of these videos actually have been flagged on like YouTube for instance for adult content or inappropriate content.

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