Christoph Helmchen | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | German |
| Awards | Ig Nobel Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neurology |
| Institutions | University of Lübeck |
Christoph Helmchen is a German neurologist at University of Lübeck[1] and Ig Nobel Prize winner of 2016 in medicine.[2] Helmchen and colleagues have discovered that if anyone has an itch on the left side of his body, they can relieve it by looking into a mirror and scratching the right side of their body (and vice versa).[3]
Helmchen was born in Marburg, Germany. He studied medicine at the University of Marburg and went on to complete his medical doctorate in 1992. He then completed a research fellowship in neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, and subsequently worked at the University of California, Berkeley.
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- ↑ "Klinik für Neurologie: Forschung & Lehre". University of Lübeck. Archived from the original on 5 November 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
- ↑ "And the Ig Nobel Prize Goes to..." Inverse.com. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
- ↑ Helmchen, Christoph; Palzer, Carina; Münte, Thomas F.; Anders, Silke; Sprenger, Andres (November 2013). "Itch Relief by Mirror Scratching. A Psychophysical Study". PLOS ONE. 8 (12): e82756. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...882756H. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0082756. PMC 3873464. PMID 24386113.
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