Residence Germany Fields Neurology Notable awards Ig Nobel Prize Notable award Ig Nobel Prize | Nationality German Institutions University of Lübeck Field Neurology Institution University 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, he can relieve it by looking into a mirror and scratching the right side of his body (and vice versa).
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