1 EDITORIALS MIRROR NEURONS:
Journal Title: Indian journal of applied basic medical sciences - Year 2016, Vol 18, Issue 27
Abstract
Essentially, mirror neurons respond to the actions that we observe in others. These “mirror neurons” were hypothesized as a part of the brain's motor system. Many questions can be answered by these mirror neurons i.e. Why we so deeply feel bad and pain and involved emotionally when we see people in agony and distress? How is it that we can read other people's body language and faces as well? Why we show empathy? How we learn language by imitation? A special circuit is found in brain that helps us the ability to connect with one another. This is the brain's mechanism of translating what we see so we can relate to the world and understand others .This a very important step in social evolution and socialization of human being and so we call a man is a social animal. This neuronal brain circuit is called Mirror neuron systems or mirror neurons. Mirror neurons are neurons which fire while watching some one perform an action and observing an event. They provide an internal neuronal representation of actions and intentions of others. A mirror neurons fires both when a man/animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another. Thus, the neuron mirrors the behavior of the other, as though the observer were itself acting. From the evolutionary point of view, these neurons are deeply involved in skill learning ,implicit learning ,emotional attunement, empathy and social behavior . Mirror neurons found by Giacomo Rizzolatti in 1992 when he placed electrode in motor cortex of the monkey .Actually he wanted to study the neurons specialized for the control of hand actions i.e. grasping, when monkey observes and perform similar action performed by other. And thus Mirror neurons were discovered.Similar sets of neurons were also observed in human being by fMRI Study of brain . They showed that regional activation in fMRI when witnessing an action. The same neurons fired when one observe an emotion on faces .It suggests that mirror neurons send signals to the limbic and emotional systems in the brain .This in turn allows us to empathize. Humans instinctively respond to emotion seen in other's faces and bodies .
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Janardan Bhatt
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