ASMR, Slime, and other Oddly Satisfying videos are enormously popular online, but we know surprisingly little about the body's responses that keep us wanting -- and watching -- more. WIRED's ...

wrote about a specific genre of ASMR videos in which video artists "play doctor." Dr. Ahuja published his paper in the journal JAMA in April 2019. The clinical role-playing videos Dr. Ahuja ...

By definition, ASMR stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Responses — a term used to describe a physical sensation of deep calm and euphoria, often described as a “tingling” in the body.

Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) videos, like the one posted recently on Instagram by Meghan Sussex, involve a series of sounds that many users find relaxing and enjoyable, but what ...