“When I saw my puppy break her leg,” CC Hart says, “I felt searing and electric zaps of pain down the back of my legs and the back of my arms.” It might seem like an extreme reaction to watching an ...

One morning in the winter of 2007, a medical student sprinted toward a code blue at the University of Miami Hospital. A man had collapsed in the waiting room. Before the alarm sounded, the two men ...

When a student in a University of Delaware study watched a video of someone else's hand being touched, she felt the touch on her own hand. While that may seem a little eerie to most of us, she's not ...

Daria Martin, a talented artist behind an upcoming program on mirror-touch synaesthesia (British spelling), doesn't have the neurological trait herself, but explores it and celebrates it with great ...

In a study of ten people who feel a touch on their own body when seeing another person being touched -- a condition called mirror-touch synesthesia -- British neuroscientists found that the ...

A rare condition causes Joel Salinas to experience other people’s emotions and sensations. Is mirror-touch synesthesia a superpower or a curse? No one, it seemed, knew what the patient clutching the ...

Imagine watching someone touch a surface and feeling that sensation on your own skin, or seeing an injury and experiencing a similar feeling in your own body. For most people, observing another person ...

New York: Joel Salinas, a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital can literally feel the emotional and physical sensations of his patients. Salinas has mirror-touch synesthesia, a neurological ...

If you have mirror-touch synesthesia, there's nothing wrong with you. It's just an interesting difference, like being double-jointed. In a University of Delaware study, when a student watched a video ...

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