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 ...

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb into his skin and walk around in it,” Atticus tells his daughter, Scout, in Harper Lee’s iconic ...

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A group of highly empathetic individuals with the condition mirror-touch synaesthesia is helping researchers understand how humans are able to put themselves in another’s shoes. Michael Banissy at ...

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 ...

A Liverpool woman has spoken out about what it is like to live with a brain condition which causes her to feel other people’s emotions. Fiona Torrance, 42, has multiple forms of synaesthesia, a ...

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 ...

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 ...