ASMR meanings and full forms
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- Autonomous Sensory Meridian ResponseA video can be labelled ASMR because it presents intended triggers; that label does not prove that every viewer has the response. Relaxation, a tingling report and a claim that a video treats a condition are different statements. Poerio and colleagues’ 2018 experiments distinguish ASMR experiencers from non-experiencers and report study limitations, including self-selection and possible expectation effects. Their observations are not a universal promise of sleep or treatment. The name’s clinical sound is also not a medical mechanism: Jennifer Allen’s naming interview describes choosing terminology that people could comfortably use. The study also distinguishes physiological arousal from sexual arousal; a media label alone does not define a video’s subject matter.Separate the trigger or video label, the reported sensory response and any treatment claim.
- Australian Society for Medical ResearchThe professional society, a conference it organizes and a finding presented at that conference are separate references. An ASMR event title identifies the organizational context; it does not make the society the author of every presentation or establish that a reported result is proven. The society’s history credits Barry Firkin and other young scientists with its founding in 1961, following organizing work described for 1960. Use for Medical Research in the name; it is distinct from the historical American mining society.Keep the society, named event and actual research author distinct.
- American Society of Mining and ReclamationThe 2005 society publication explicitly uses the older ASMR name in its publisher block and national-meeting title. The current society’s About page reports adoption of ASRS in 2020 to reflect its wider interests. Preserve the historical name when describing an older record, and identify the current name separately. An archived meeting’s price, contact details or timetable are not current instructions, and an organization’s publication context does not establish every article’s conclusion. The official-site link below identifies the society under its current ASRS name.Keep the historical ASMR name and publication year together; identify current ASRS separately.
- Amélioration du service médical renduASMR and SMR are separate assessment headings. HAS’s explanatory page describes ASMR V as no therapeutic progress, while a later medicine assessment can separately record substantial SMR in a stated indication. No added value in that comparison is therefore not the same statement as no medical benefit. Preserve the medicine, indication, comparison and assessment date from the actual record. A level is not a price, marketing authorization or instruction for an individual patient.Read added value relative to the stated comparison separately from medical benefit or an individual treatment decision.
- Age-Standardised Mortality RateThe direct method applies observed age-specific rates to a stated standard population. It does not turn a group rate into an individual’s probability of dying or explain the cause of a difference. Keep the standard population, denominator unit, period and population definition with the value. ONS specifically warns that rates based on the 1976 and 2013 European Standard Populations are not comparable. In another source ASMR can mean Age-Specific Mortality Rate, so read the expansion and method rather than relying on the letters alone.Use the stated age weights and matching rate units; distinguish a standardised summary from an age-group rate.
- Age-Specific Mortality RateRead the definition in the source: ONS uses ASMR for Age-Standardised Mortality Rate, while the cited study uses the letters for Age-Specific Mortality Rate. An age-group calculation needs the deaths and population for that group, the stated period and denominator unit. Counts alone are not rates. Our small exercise uses an invented fixed group over one declared example period and expresses its rate per 100,000 people; it does not reproduce a statistical office’s full method or estimate a personal risk.Match numerator and denominator to the same age group and period, and keep the rate unit explicit.
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This page covers 6 currently published meanings of ASMR. It is not an exhaustive list of every use. Suggest another documented meaning if the context you need is missing.