Rare condition causes neurologist to feel patients’ pain
31st July 2015
Most people would consider the words, ‘I feel your pain’ as a sympathetic turn of phrase. But for US neurologist Dr Joel Salinas, the pain is real.
Dr Salinas has a rare condition known as mirror-touch synaesthesia, where he feels everything that people around him physically feel.
“For example, if I were to see someone touch your cheek I