Large portion of population benefits from ASMR

Dear Doctors: I would like to know more about ASMR. I never heard of it until a friend's daughter started watching videos of people whispering.

She says she likes how it feels. I watched for a bit, and nothing happened, but my own daughter has become a fan. What is ASMR?

What does it do?

Dear Reader: ASMR is short for autonomous sensory meridian response. It's a phenomenon in which some people experi…