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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Dr. Joel Salinas was a kid, he didn’t just watch cartoons. He felt them. “If I was watching Road Runner on TV, and while the coyote got hit by a truck, I would get hit by a truck … it was intense ...

"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 ...

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Dr. Joel Salinas was in medical school the first time he saw a man die. “Someone is doing compressions … and as this is going on, I’m feeling the compressions on my chest as if it were happening on my ...