How come you can't tickle yourself? And why can some people handle tickling perfectly fine while others scream their heads off? Neuroscientists argue that we should take tickle research more seriously ...

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Scientists have developed a new method to probe the long-standing mystery of how tickling works, an advance that could have big implications for our understanding of brain development. Humans have ...