What is ASMR? Is it real? Why do only some people get affected?

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One day I was looking up medical videos and before I knew it I was tumbling down a tingly rabbit hole into the fascinating world of ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response). Huge thanks to Dr Giulia Poerio of the University of Essex and @DrJamesGill, GP and Warwick Medical School Lecturer.

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Giulia is looking for volunteers! Do you want to help ASMR research? Full website coming soon, but some info about it here: https://crowd.science/campaigns/asmrn.... If you're interested and think you have something to offer, drop Giulia an email (address at the end of the vid in the link).

References:

Giulia's main study - https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
Review from Giulia and colleagues - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31128...
One of the early articles - https://peerj.com/articles/851/
Personality traits - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...
ASMR University (good resource compiling information, but be aware there is no quality control) https://asmruniversity.com/

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00:00 Intro
01:17 What is ASMR?
02:32 I'm a gopher at a Furry convention
04:06 The problem with a loose definition for ASMR
05:30 Dr Giulia Poerio Q1 Is ASMR real?
06:16 Q2 Why do only some people get it?
08:20 Q3 The role of personal care
09:57 Q4 ASMR in the era of loneliness
11:51 Q5 Therapeutic uses and medical ASMR
14:02 Long winded set up for a bad joke
15:09 Wishy washy science
15:45 The man, the myth, the legend, the Gill
17:30 Q2 When did you learn of your ASMR legacy
18:14 Q3 What ASMR can teach doctors
20:00 What I've learnt from ASMR/close
21:54 Watch this bit or I starve
24:10 Diagnosis: TERMINAL TINGLITIS