Mirror Touch: Notes from a Doctor Who Can Feel Your Pain with Joel Salinas, MD

Published: July 27, 2017, 8 p.m.

Challenging our understanding of what it means to be human, Joel Salinas, a Harvard-trained researcher and neurologist at Massachusetts General, shares his experiences with mirror-touch synesthesia, a rare and only recently identified neurological trait that causes him to feel the emotional and physical experiences of other people. Salinas refers to his condition as a kind of compulsory mindfulness, a heightened empathic ability that offers him invaluable clues about how to see and live the world through other people\u2019s perspectives.\n
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