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ASMR

Catherine Alajouri

Weird sounds or a potential healing method?

INDEX

1. What is ASMR?

3. Why I chose this topic

4. Steadyhealth

2. Tingles

5. Study 2015

6. Study 2018

7. Study 2018

8. Experiment

9. Therapeutic use

10. Comparison (like vs. dislike)

11. Conclusion

12. Thanks

1

What is ASMR?

- What? Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response

-Tingeling sensation triggered by certain stimuli called triggers
- Who? ASMRtists
- How? Listening, seeing or feeling

Tingles

Those who experience tingles, report...
overall calmness
wellbeing
relaxation
euphoria

Why I chose this topic

- Helps me with: panic/anxiety attacks, insomnia, relaxation and headaches
- The science behind ASMR => not enough research



2015 PeerJ study

Only 5% use ASMR for sexual stimulation

84%

DATa

Swansea University


"Findings indicate that ASMR is reliable and physiologically- rooted experience that may have therapeutic benefits for mental and physical health"

The University of Sheffield, PLOSOne, 2018

-Neuroimaging using fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging)


-Regions associated with self-awareness, social cognition, and social behaviour including grooming.

Producing images of brain activity to messure what's happening in various regions of the brain.

Experiment

Step 1

Normal state.

Step 2

While hearing fireworks.

Step 3

While listeing to my favourite ASMR trigger.



Blood pressure: 119/80 mmHg

Pulse rate: 73 bpm


Blood pressure: 117/76 mmHg

Pulse rate: 84 bpm


Blood pressure: 107/79 mmHg

Pulse rate: 77 bpm

How can ASMR be used in therapy?

- Classical Conditioning, Pavlov (a procees by which we learn to associate stimuli and, consequently, to anticipate events)


- Associating ASMR stimuli/ triggers with calmness, relaxation, comfort, sleepiness ( conditioned stimulus => conditioned response)

comparison

vs

Like ASMR

- Feel safe
- No judgment
- nostolgia (warmth, safety...)
- virtual
- The tingling sensation feels like a soft blanket

Dislike
ASMR

- Too intimate
- Strangers
- Prefrences (e.g. physical touch)
- The tingling sensation feels like cringing

- ASMR is real!
- The phenomenon has physiological and neurological activation
- It may be useful therapeutically for both physical and mental health
=> MORE STUDIES

CONCLUSION:

Thanks!