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 ...

People with mirror-touch synesthesia really do feel your pain, study says. June 18, 2007 — -- When you see others laugh or cry, it's often normal to feel the impulse to do the same. But what if ...

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 ...

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 ...

We synesthetes have been comparing notes for years about how to manage the extreme empathy or mirror-touch synesthesia many of us experience. From internalizing the moods (good or bad) of others, to ...

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 ...