NO ONE, IT seemed, knew what the patient clutching the stuffed blue bunny was feeling. At 33, he looked like a bewildered boy, staring at the doctors who crowded into his room in Massachusetts General ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you think of synesthesia, you probably think of someone who “hears” colors or “sees” sound. But the brain’s unusual cross-wiring can take on some more surprising forms, too. People with ...

Let's call her "Kaylee." Her Mom says that's OK. The young Texan chose the pseudonym herself, taking it from a character who talks to machines on Fox's "Firefly" science fiction series. But this ...