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Nuclear Medicine & Radiation Therapy

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Mirror Neurons

Mirror neurons are one of the most important discoveries in the last decade of neuroscience. These are a spread of visuospatial neurons which indicate fundamentally about human social interaction. Essentially, mirror neurons answer actions that we observe in others. The interesting part is that mirror neurons fire in the same way when we actually recreate that action ourselves. Apart from imitation, they are responsible for a myriad of other sophisticated human behavior and thought processes. Defects in the mirror neuron system are being linked to disorders like autism. This review is a brief introduction to the neurons that shaped our civilization. In a group of neurophysiologists placed electrodes in the ventral premotor cortex of the macaque monkey to study neurons specialized for the control of hand and mouth actions.[6] They recorded electrical signals from a group of neurons in the monkey's brain while the monkey was allowed to reach for pieces of food, so the researchers could measure their response to certain movements. They found that a number of the neurons they recorded from would respond when the monkey saw an individual devour a bit of food also as when the monkey picked up the food.

 

In another experiment, they showed the role of the mirror neuron system in action recognition and proposed that the human Broca's region was the homolog region of the monkey ventral premotor cortex. Subsequently, a study by Ferrari Pier Francesco and colleagues described the presence of mirror neurons responding to mouth actions and facial gestures.

Mirror neurons are one of the most important discoveries in the last decade of neuroscience. These are a spread of visuospatial neurons which indicate fundamentally about human social interaction. Essentially, mirror neurons answer actions that we observe in others. The interesting part is that mirror neurons fire in the same way when we actually recreate that action ourselves. Apart from imitation, they are responsible for a myriad of other sophisticated human behavior and thought processes. Defects in the mirror neuron system are being linked to disorders like autism. This review is a brief introduction to the neurons that shaped our civilization. In a group of neurophysiologists placed electrodes in the ventral premotor cortex of the macaque monkey to study neurons specialized for the control of hand and mouth actions.[6] They recorded electrical signals from a group of neurons in the monkey's brain while the monkey was allowed to reach for pieces of food, so the researchers could measure their response to certain movements. They found that a number of the neurons they recorded from would respond when the monkey saw an individual devour a bit of food also as when the monkey picked up the food.

In another experiment, they showed the role of the mirror neuron system in action recognition and proposed that the human Broca's region was the homolog region of the monkey ventral premotor cortex. Subsequently, a study by Ferrari Pier Francesco and colleagues described the presence of mirror neurons responding to mouth actions and facial gestures.

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