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We feel your pain... and your happiness too The human brain's source of empathy may also play a role in autism [1]

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The Boston Globe [3]
Carey Goldberg
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[ Sun. Dec. 11. 2005 ]

...One report, by the prominent neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran of the University of California at San Diego, even suggested that mirror neurons could be involved when people understand metaphors.

These are early days for research into mirror neurons, but Ramachandran predicted in a 2000 essay (available online at www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ramachandran/ramachandran_p1.html [4]) that they ''will do for psychology what DNA did for biology: they will provide a unifying framework and help explain a host of mental abilities that have hitherto remained mysterious and inaccessible to experiments."

They could even help explain how language emerged in early humans, he argued in the essay. ...

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[1] https://www.edge.org/news/we-feel-your-pain-and-your-happiness-too-the-human-brains-source-of-empathy-may-also-play-a
[2] http://is.gd/tFx3Qy
[3] http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2005/12/12/we_feel_your_pain_and_your_happiness_too/
[4] http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ramachandran/ramachandran_p1.html