You may have heard of ASMR, the increasingly popular internet-based relaxation trend. You might have caught the New York Times’s blog post about the phenomenon, or the Washington Post’s profile piece ...

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I have ASMR. Or maybe the correct phrasing is that I’m susceptible to ASMR. It’s tough to talk about the phenomenon, because ASMR lacks the mandatory scientific evidence that proves, well, its ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... She whispers to you as she takes a pink cloth to your cheeks. The cloth touches the edges of the camera lens, and the mic picks up the soft brushing sound.

According to the National Library of Medicine, ASMR is a newly coined abbreviation for "Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response." Colloquially, ASMR is also known as “brain tingles." It is used to ...

Maybe you've seen one of the millions of videos devoted to ASMR on the internet, or perhaps you experience the brain tingles yourself. Here's what you need to know about the phenomenon, adapted from ...

On the recommendation of a colleague, I put the letters “ASMR” into the search bar for YouTube. Many videos came up, some with a great number of views. One had over 15 million. I clicked on the first ...

Michael MacIntyre, MD, is a board-certified general and forensic psychiatrist practicing general psychiatry at the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System in Los Angeles. ASMR is a sensation in which ...

Welcome to part two. In part one, we discussed the phenomenon of ASMR, an internet based trend of videos which relax those who experience the sensation known as Autonomous Meridian Sensory ...