A great analysis of mirror neurons and action observation. Your doctor better have protocols prepared for you, its only been known for 20 years.
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7179471/this-your-brain-sports
The evidence that the spectating brain is also a playing brain has been
mounting ever since the early 1990s, when a group of neurophysiologists
at the University of Parma, Italy implanted electrodes in the brain of a
macaque monkey to find out exactly which neurons fired when the monkey
grasped a peanut and brought it to his mouth. The electrodes were placed
in the monkey's premotor cortex, the region known to initiate signals
that direct muscle movement in both macaques and humans. The researchers
hoped that pinpointing the individual motor neurons that fired when the
monkey grasped the peanut might lead to therapies that could help
brain-damaged humans recover hand function.
More at link.
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