Individual mirror neurons were first identified in the premotor cortex and inferior parietal lobule of the macaque brain. Similar findings soon followed in other animals. Studies on humans have ...

Since their discovery in the monkey brain, it has been suggested that mirror neurons mediate the mimicking of behaviour in primates and perhaps also underlie empathy and language acquisition in ...

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

A new study published in Current Biology has uncovered a peculiar social behavior in chimpanzees that experts call ...

Mirror Touch Synesthesia (MTS) is a rare and fascinating neurological condition where individuals can physically feel the ...

Narrator: In the "Black Mirror" episode "San Junipero," Yorkie ... and a nematode's brain has about 302 neurons. A human brain has 86 billion, not to mention the 10,000 or so connections each ...

The study, published in the journal Nature Metabolism, showed that neurons in the hippocampus are encoding memories of sugar and fat. This memory system is shaping feeding behavior and metabolic ...