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 ...

Autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR, is a sensation where visual or auditory triggers fire off synapses in the brain that create a pleasant, calming feeling — colloquially referred to as ...

Have you ever felt a tingling sensation sweep across your head and neck as someone brushes your hair or speaks softly to you? If so, you probably fall among the 20 percent of people who experience ...

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 ...

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 ...