If you put a hanger on your head - it will turn.
Researchers are trying to understand why?
A ticking trend that has been going on for years challenges viewers to put a hanger on their head to check if their head is turning in one direction involuntarily.
For most of them this is exactly what is happening and to this day no scientific explanation has been found for it
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07/06/2022
Tuesday, 07 June 2022, 00:12
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People trying out the hanger site (Tiktok)
True tiktok addicts know what we're talking about.
Take a simple hanger from the wardrobe, expand it slightly, put it on your head so that it presses on its sides and you will see what happens.
A 2015 study found that about 85 percent of you would move your head right or left in an involuntary action.
This bizarre reflex has already won quite a few studies that have not yielded satisfactory answers as to how and why this happens.
This trend has been running in Tiktok for almost two years and is not dangerous to carry out so you are definitely welcome to give it a try.
Something in the position of the hanger on your head creates a sliding reflex of the head, as many have tried and been surprised to see how their head began to move to one side.
The phenomenon was first reviewed long before anyone even thought of ticking, in a study published in 1991 and then again in a study we talked about earlier and was entitled: "Hanger Reflex Occurrence Rate: Unexpected Head Rotation on Pronto-Temporary Head Compression".
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The 2015 study authors wrote: "When the head is surrounded by a wire hanger and the pronto-temporal unilateral area is compressed, the head rotates involuntarily."
However, because the mechanism is unclear, the phenomenon was temporarily referred to as the "hanger reflex."
The study involved 120 adults - 60 men and 60 women aged 19 to 65, with one hanger after another placed on the fronto-temporal areas on either side of their heads.
The researchers found that 84.5 percent of participants had an involuntary head-turning reaction.
The study said: "The rate of events of the hanger reflex was remarkably high and probably represents a widespread phenomenon in humans. The mechanism underlying the reflex remains unknown."
Study on the "hanger reflex" from 2014:
The science behind the hanger challenge
The study authors suggested conducting further studies on the causes of the "hanger reflex" as this data can be used to treat cervical dystonia, a condition in which the neck muscles contract involuntarily and cause the head to be pulled to one side.
In 2020, another study was conducted on the subject, but even in it, the researchers were unable to reach an unequivocal conclusion.
In 2014 a group of scientists created a designed device that can be worn on the head, similar to a hat, and apply pressure to various points to see in which specific area the “rotation” was activated.
They found that it was the anterior and posterior temporal region that produced the best response in the participants.
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