MRI?...'I'll have what she's having'!

Does climbing into an MRI machine push your buttons?? The claustrophobic and din aversion ones probably.

Over at  Big Think, Kayt Sukel is tackling other possiblities - oh, all in the name of research, of course:

I donned a hospital johnny and was pushed back into the scanner’s tube, as ready as I would ever be to have an orgasm in an fMRI. The magnet started to spin around me. As promised, it was loud. It lasted the majority of my session inside the scanner, which was approximately an hour and a half. Even with ear protection, I could feel each click, clank, and whir all the way down my spine.
Just as I was starting to zone out, not into sleep exactly, but into something like it, the noises suddenly stopped. It was now time for the big show. Ready or not, I had to woman up and bring myself to orgasm. In a few minutes I would know if loud clanks and clicks, hospital johnnies, and a tight mesh head restraint could make the magic happen.
Hearing my cue, I took a deep breath and got to it. It may not have been romantic or sexy in there and, man, this mask thing was starting to get really uncomfortable, but I was going to orgasm no matter what. I powered through it, keeping my head as still as possible.

Umm, mri machines and orgasms -  not two words I had ever considered in the same sentence - Anyone?? Bueller? Something to consider at your next mri appt? New Year's resolution perhaps?

And if you are wondering - cause no doubt you are - from this, the neuro scientists from Rutgers Universtity made the mind boggling discovery that:

...areas implicated in memory, integration of sensory information, and emotion also became active. As my orgasm came to a close, the hypothalamus turned back on, and reward areas like the nucleus accumbens and caudate nucleus were flooded with dopamine. That was what gave me that final rush. Getting to that point involves a variety of cognitive, emotional, and sensory components—even when it’s just you doing the work.

Is this a leap for womankind? Astonishing that it made her feel good? I think not. Astonishing that she felt good in an mri machine? Well!... It seems the research overlooks the impact this could have for ms-ers spending time in mri machines...

Surely raising questions as to whether there are other just as effective means that could be being embraced for those encountering mri machines? Let alone questions around the placebo effect??

Meg Ryan and 80s Big Hair in that scene:

There's no mention of seeking recruits for further studies. Nonetheless, next you spend some quality time in an mri machine, might you consider a whole different slant on: 'How was it for you?'