Saturday the newspaper Trouw published an interesting article about ASMR for which I was interviewed.

You can read it here.

Last Friday the first official workshop for Hoop Training for Eating Disorders took place.

Several enthusiastic psychomotor therapists signed up and left fully equipped to use this novel intervention for body image in their own patient groups.

We are looking forward to the next workshop day!

Yesterday BNR news radio visited the university and participated in our ASMR research, they had an item about ASMR in their afternoon show.

You can listen to it here.

The year 2019 started off with a nice interview last weekend about ASMR in the magazine of Algemeen Dagblad.

You can read it here.

The Dutch TV channel RTL4 made an item about ASMR in their evening news show last week.

You can read the accompanying online article here.

Last week ASMR was in the media again!

EenVandaag made a news item about ASMR, featuring our experiment, you can watch it here.

NPO radio 1 broadcasted the podcast I recorded at Betweter festival, which was a nice collab between NTR Focus and the Universiteit van Nederland, you can listen to it here.

NOSop3 made a really nice item about ASMR.

They interviewed a Dutch ASMRtist, visited our ASMR experiment at Betweter festival and asked me some questions.

You can find the article and video here.

Together with psychomotor therapist José Bonekamp and PhD student Manja Engel I have been working on a novel intervention for body image in anorexia for a few years. We have developed a “hoop training” in which the focus is on giving patients direct feedback on their body size in multiple modalities. The first paper on this training has been published last week in Eating and Weight Disorders.

You can read it here.

Coming Friday, October 5th, me and several colleagues will conduct a live experiment about Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) at the Betweter Festival in Utrecht.

You can read an interview with me about the upcoming experiment in the Uitkrant.

Kayla just published a new paper in Neuropsychologia in which she decribes that participants experience bodily illusion for the upper body just as strong as for the lower body. Interestingly there was a relation between sensory suggestibility and strenght of the illusion.

You can find the paper here.