On July 27, a 30-year-old Russian expat, known only to her followers as Maria, hit 1 million subscribers on her YouTube channel GentleWhispering–which features her doing just that. Maria is one of the ...

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 ...

MT Koala is one of China’s first ASMR stars – autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR, is described as a feeling of well-being combined with a tingling sensation in the scalp and neck, as ...

A spate of YouTube videos that use crinkling, crunching and whispering sounds to trigger tingling sensations may seem odd but the videos and performers have become not only a social phenomenon, they ...

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Common ASMR triggers include whispering, hair play, and ear brushing. Not all people experience a positive response or any response to these triggers, though. ASMR, or autonomous sensory meridian ...

A YouTube community dedicated to gentle whispers and soft sounds is celebrating a milestone, after one of its most popular celebrities hit one million subscribers. A Russian-American woman named Maria ...

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. Have you felt a tingling sensation ...