Dr. Joel Salinas suffers from a condition called mirror-touch synesthesia. As a result of this condition, whenever Salinas sees someone experience pain or even touches another person, his brain recreates the same sensations in his own body.
Salinas, a neurologist at the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, has been using his condition to better understand his patients.
In 2008, when Joel Salinas was a third-year medical student, he saw a person die from cardiac arrest. Without any warning, Salinas started feeling compressions on his own chest.
He didn’t know it then, but Salinas suffers from a condition called “synesthesia.” Whenever he sees someone experience pain, or even just through the sense of touch, his brain recreates the sensations in his own body.
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Salinas, a neurologist at the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, has been using his condition to better understand his patients.
In 2008, when Joel Salinas was a third-year medical student, he saw a person die from cardiac arrest. Without any warning, Salinas started feeling compressions on his own chest.
He didn’t know it then, but Salinas suffers from a condition called “synesthesia.” Whenever he sees someone experience pain, or even just through the sense of touch, his brain recreates the sensations in his own body.
Dr. Joel Salinas/ Due to his mirror-touch synesthesia condition, he can literally feel the pain of his patients. Image Credit: Ipsiety via Wikipedia, mohamed_hassan / 2645 images via Pixabay
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