Your doctor needs to explain their usefulness because they help in action observation, and if you have dead brain you most likely will need action observation to work. Ask your doctor what the efficacy of action observation is. And waiting 20 years for an answer is not ok.
http://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences//retrieve/pii/S1364661313001496?
Authors
- Highlights
- We propose a model that could explain how mirror neurons emerge during development.
- We examine mirror neuron variations and plasticity.
- Environmental factors, by acting on brain plasticity, produce stable functional brain circuits.
- Mirror neurons are subjected to functional modification through their interaction with social environment.
Summary
The
consensus view in mirror neuron research is that mirror neurons
comprise a uniform, stable execution–observation matching system. In
this opinion article, we argue that, in light of recent evidence, this
is at best an incomplete and oversimplified view of mirror neurons,
where activity is actually variable and more plastic than previously
theorized. We propose an epigenetic account for understanding
developmental changes in sensorimotor systems, including variations in
mirror neuron activity. Although associative and genetic accounts fail
to consider the complexity of genetic and nongenetic interactions, we
propose a new evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) perspective,
which predicts that environmental differences early in development
should produce variations in mirror neuron response patterns, tuning
them to the social environment.
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