Christoph Helmchen

{{Short description|German neurologist}}

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| nationality = German

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| work_institution = University of Lübeck

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| prizes = Ig Nobel Prize

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Christoph Helmchen is a German neurologist at University of Lübeck{{cite web | url=http://www.neuro.uni-luebeck.de/neuro/index.php/forschungsgruppen/sensorimotor-systems/mitarbeiter/articles/christoph-helmchen-md-238.html | title=Klinik für Neurologie: Forschung & Lehre | publisher=University of Lübeck | accessdate=4 November 2016 | archive-date=5 November 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105094546/http://www.neuro.uni-luebeck.de/neuro/index.php/forschungsgruppen/sensorimotor-systems/mitarbeiter/articles/christoph-helmchen-md-238.html | url-status=dead }} and Ig Nobel Prize winner of 2016 in medicine.{{cite web | url=https://www.inverse.com/article/21327-ig-nobel-prize-winners-2016 | title=And the Ig Nobel Prize Goes to... | publisher=Inverse.com | accessdate=4 November 2016}} 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).{{cite journal|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0082756|last1=Helmchen|first1=Christoph|last2=Palzer|first2=Carina|last3=Münte|first3=Thomas F.|last4=Anders|first4=Silke|last5=Sprenger|first5=Andres|title=Itch Relief by Mirror Scratching. A Psychophysical Study|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=8

|number=12|pages=e82756|date= November 2013|pmid=24386113|pmc=3873464|bibcode=2013PLoSO...882756H|doi-access=free}}