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·March 12, 2022·5 min read

If You Love ASMR You Might Be More Sensitive

People who enjoy ASMR have heightened sensory sensitivity, a new study reports. Many people who react positively to ASMR also experience higher levels of bodily awareness, greater sensitivity to bodily sensations, and often are easily overstimulated by their environment.

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·November 4, 2019·4 min read

How brain injury can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder

Traumatic brain injury caused five times as many neurons in the amygdala to be active during white noise exposure in rats. Altered sensory processing within subcortical sensory-emotional networks following TBI impacts the facilitation of traumatic memory and may contribute to the development of PTSD.

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·November 30, 2017·4 min read

People With PTSD React Differently to Certain Sounds

In people with PTSD, the brain expresses an enhanced response to deviant tones, suggesting their brains over process any environmental changes. Additionally, researchers note, the more enhanced the response, the worse those with PTSD performed on cognitive and memory tests.

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sensory sensitivity

If You Love ASMR You Might Be More Sensitive

How brain injury can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder

People With PTSD React Differently to Certain Sounds

Ideal Blood Pressure May Remodel Brain Clearance Pathways Linked to Brain Health and Dementia

Study Offers Neurological Explanation for How Brains Bias Partisans Against New Information

Possible New Way to Reduce Pain Inspired by Chickens

Brain Cell Changes in Alzheimer’s Disease Mapped

New Clues to Sensory Brain Disorders

Antidepressants Use for Chronic Pain on the Rise, but Are They Effective?

A Drug That Increases Dopamine Can Reverse the Effects of Inflammation on the Brain in Depression

People With Autism Experience Pain at a Higher Intensity

When Chronic Stress Activates These Neurons, Behavioral Problems Like Loss of Pleasure and Depression Result

Do Sleep Medications Increase Your Chances of Dementia?

Ideal Blood Pressure May Remodel Brain Clearance Pathways Linked to Brain Health and Dementia

Study Offers Neurological Explanation for How Brains Bias Partisans Against New Information

Possible New Way to Reduce Pain Inspired by Chickens

Brain Cell Changes in Alzheimer’s Disease Mapped

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