Mirror-touch synesthesia (MTS) is a condition that approximately two in 100 people have, and it involves of physically feeling something that is happening to someone else. New research investigates ...

Researchers reveal new information about mirror-touch synesthesia based on one of the largest studies of its kind. When a student in a University of Delaware study watched a video of someone else's ...

One night while working the night shift, Megan Pohlmann, 30, scrubbed her hands vigorously, snapped on a pair of blue gloves, and walked into the intensive care unit at St. Louis Children’s Hospital ...

Boston, Mass.-based neurologist Joel Salinas is a doctor who knows exactly how you feel. Perfectly attuned to the sensations of others, the 33-year-old has a condition known as mirror-touch ...

Joel Salinas is a neurologist and clinical researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston who has mirror-touch synesthesia, a rare trait of heightened empathy that allows him to physically ...

Two weeks ago I was invited to speak on synesthesia at New Dorp High School, a public school in New York City, by an award-winning science teacher, Theresa Kutza. Ms. Kutza had learned about my work ...

"I feel your pain" is often meaningless pablum, but for some people with unusual brain wiring it is literally true. People with a condition called mirror-touch synesthesia experience the sensation of ...

Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which the stimulation of one sensory input inadvertently creates an automatic secondary sensation. Over 60 examples of synesthesia exist, with the most ...