How everyday sounds can trigger strong emotions: ASMR, misophonia and the feeling of wellbeing

PD McGeoch, R Rouw - BioEssays, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We propose that synesthetic cross‐activation between the primary auditory cortex and the
anatomically adjacent insula may help explain two puzzling conditions—autonomous …

[HTML][HTML] Prefrontal functional connectivities in autism spectrum disorders: A connectopathic disorder affecting movement, interoception, and cognition

G Leisman, R Melillo, T Melillo - Brain Research Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
The prefrontal cortex is included in a neuronal system that includes the basal ganglia, the
thalamus, and the cerebellum. Most of the higher and more complex motor, cognitive, and …

Decoding naturalistic affective behaviour from spectro-spatial features in multiday human iEEG

M Bijanzadeh, AN Khambhati, M Desai… - Nature human …, 2022 - nature.com
The neurological basis of affective behaviours in everyday life is not well understood. We
obtained continuous intracranial electroencephalography recordings from the human …

PTSD and its dissociative subtype through the lens of the insula: Anterior and posterior insula resting‐state functional connectivity and its predictive validity using …

S Harricharan, AA Nicholson, J Thome… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Individuals with post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) typically experience states of reliving
and hypervigilance; however, the dissociative subtype of PTSD (PTSD+ DS) presents with …

Brain circuits in autonomous sensory meridian response and related phenomena

IF Lin, HM Kondo - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is characterized by a tingling sensation
with a feeling of relaxation and a state of flow. We explore the neural underpinnings and …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a neural model of infant cry perception

J Witteman, MH Van IJzendoorn, JK Rilling… - Neuroscience & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Previous work suggests that infant cry perception is supported by an evolutionary old neural
network consisting of the auditory system, the thalamocingulate circuit, the frontoinsular …

Brain function effects of autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) video viewing

N Sakurai, K Nagasaka, S Takahashi, S Kasai… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is the sensation of tingling
from audiovisual stimuli that leads to positive emotions. ASMR is used among young people …

Expanding simulation models of emotional understanding: the case for different modalities, body-state simulation prominence, and developmental trajectories

P Ross, AP Atkinson - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Recent models of emotion recognition suggest that when people perceive an emotional
expression, they partially activate the respective emotion in themselves, providing a basis for …

rTMS modulates precuneus-hippocampal subregion circuit in patients with subjective cognitive decline

J Chen, N Ma, G Hu, A Nousayhah, C Xue… - Aging (Albany …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hippocampal subregions (HIPsub) and their network connectivities are generally aberrant in
patients with subjective cognitive decline (SCD). This study aimed to investigate whether …

[HTML][HTML] Human responses to visually evoked threat

MY Balban, E Cafaro, L Saue-Fletcher, MJ Washington… - Current biology, 2021 - cell.com
Vision is the primary sense humans use to evaluate and respond to threats. Understanding
the biological underpinnings of the human threat response has been hindered by lack of …