Some itches are caused by obvious physical triggers (OMG, there's a
spider on your arm!). Others, though, have a more complicated source.
Watching other people itch can make you feel itchy. In this piece at
Scientific American blogs, Scicurious explains the neurobiology behind sympathetic itching. I got four paragraphs in before I had to scratch my neck. How about you?
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