The owner of the UK's first ASMR clinic charges up to £100 to pretend-brush people's hair - and says the practice helps anxiety, ADHD and insomnia patients. Kellie Ripley, 46, opened the ASMR Live ...

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 ...

The pandemic has left many people isolated and craving physical intimacy. Touch-based ASMR videos are helping some touch-deprived people better deal with being alone. Fans of the genre say they find ...

We open with a close-up of a young woman’s face, shot from below. She gazes downward into the camera, her light brown hair hanging so low as to almost touch the lens. Her eyes are wide with what seems ...

I’m sitting on a futon in a stranger’s apartment with my friend Ashley. In front of us, Melinda Lauw—a slender, wide-eyed Singaporean woman—is crouched in a squat, holding a small flickering candle, ...

It's taken me a long time to write this article, and here's why: I fell down the ASMR rabbit hole. ASMR is an acronym for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. There's little medical writing on ASMR, ...