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Scientists make brain mirror neurons breakthroughRSS Feed
A new discovery about mirror neurons has been made by US scientists and could assist in brain injury treatment.
Researchers believe they have found solid evidence of the existence of mirror neurons, which were previously only suspected to exist on the basis of indirect evidence.
The new discovery also suggests that the neurons, which are believed to be activated when we perform a particular action, may have a more widespread use than previously thought.
Researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles have made the first direct recording of mirror neurons in the human brain and suspect that they are also active, although less so, when observing someone else's actions.
Roy Mukamel is one of the authors of the study, which is published in the journal Current Biology, and suggests that these cells may have a wider link to activity of the self than previously believed, which could have implications for disorders such as autism and other conditions where imitation and empathy is observed as being difficult.
He said: "We hypothesise that the decreased activity from the cells when observing an action may be to inhibit the observer from automatically performing that same action.
"Furthermore, this subset of mirror neurons may help us distinguish the actions of other people from our own actions."
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