Christoph Helmchen

Christoph Helmchen
AwardsIg Nobel Prize
Scientific career
FieldsNeurology
WorkplacesUniversity of Lübeck

Christoph Helmchen is a German neurologist at University of Lübeck and Ig Nobel Prize winner of 2016 in medicine. 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).


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  1. ↑ "Klinik für Neurologie: Forschung & Lehre". University of Lübeck. Archived from the original on 5 November 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  2. ↑ "And the Ig Nobel Prize Goes to..." Inverse.com. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  3. ↑ 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.