Mirror Neurons are a cluster of cells in our brains that fire both when you take an action, but also when you see someone ...

Mirror neurons are brain cells that allow us to empathize with others. They are key to human interaction and social skills. UCLA neuroscientists, using brain scanning technology, have discovered that ...

The old adage that we can only learn how to do something by trying it ourselves may have to be revised in the light of recent discoveries in neuroscience. It turns out that humans, primates, some ...

For 20 minutes Andrea McColl, a research assistant at the University of Southern California, has been repeating the same string of nonsense syllables, changing her intonation on cue. When a smiling ...

Dear Doctors: I am a junior in college. I enjoy being around people, so I live in the dorms. Last year, my roommate was depressed, and I also got to feeling down. This year, the girl I live with is ...

Researchers from Denmark released a new study on Feb. 24 showing that specific brain cells called “ mirror neurons ” may help people interpret the actions they see other people perform. Mirror neurons ...

Mirror neurons were discovered at the Università degli Studi di Parma in the 1990s, and first described as nerve cells in the frontal and premotor cortex of macaques that fire both when the monkey ...

In a recent study published in the journal Cell, researchers utilized a genetically encoded mirror-TRAP strategy to investigate the functional importance of aggression-mirroring neurons. Social ...

Nat Clin Pract Neurol. 2009;5(1):24-34. Studies in which the properties of single neurons were studied in a naturalistic context have been particularly important for establishing this new view on ...

(This video is no longer available for streaming.) Why do sports fans feel so emotionally invested in the game, reacting almost as if they were part of the game themselves? According to provocative ...