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The Mirror Neuron Revolution: Explaining What Makes Humans Social: Scientific American - 0 views
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In recent years, Iacoboni has shown that mirror neurons may be an important element of social cognition and that defects in the mirror neuron system may underlie a variety of mental disorders, such as autism.
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Mirror neurons are the only brain cells we know of that seem specialized to code the actions of other people and also our own actions. They are obviously essential brain cells for social interactions. Without them, we would likely be blind to the actions, intentions and emotions of other people.
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The way mirror neurons likely let us understand others is by providing some kind of inner imitation of the actions of other people, which in turn leads us to “simulate” the intentions and emotions associated with those actions. When I see you smiling, my mirror neurons for smiling fire up, too, initiating a cascade of neural activity that evokes the feeling we typically associate with a smile.
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Facing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Diagnoses: DSM V Should Separate Autistic Disord... - 0 views
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This inclusion of substantially different disorders, with wildly different challenges, in one "spectrum" of disorders implies that the very serious challenges of persons with Autistic Disorder who lack a fundamental understanding of the world, who have very limited abstract thought and who have very little in the way of communication skills are somehow fundamentally similar to persons with good to excellent facilities in all these crucial areas of life.
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Research is resulting in more and more people describing autism in the plural as autism disorders with different causes and different possible treatments.
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It is time for the DSM to get realistic about the Autism "Spectrum".
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NeuroLogica Blog » The Genetics of Autism - 0 views
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What this means is that there is likely to be a complex set of many factors that contribute to ASD - not one single cause.
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The same exact situation is true for other entities, like schizophrenia and attention deficit disorder (ADD).
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One difference, however, is that schizophrenia and ADD likely represent changes to particular parts of the brain, while autism is likely due to changes in the global architecture of the brain.
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