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Nov 2019
54m 43s

A Doctor Who Can Feel People’s Pain

Goop, Inc. and Audacy
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“There’s a space between people that we just have to take a risk and just leap and see how we can connect,” says Joel Salinas, Harvard Medical School neurologist and author of Mirror Touch. Salinas has mirror-touch synesthesia: He explains to host Elise Loehnen that he perceives his senses as mixed (i.e., he hears colors) and that he’s able to feel the physi ... Show More
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