What We Know Currently about Mirror Neurons

Demand your doctor read up on this and see what needs to change in your stroke protocol. You do expect your doctor to want to keep up-to-date, don't you? Or is your doctor  still staying with the knowledge learned in medical school?
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822%2813%2901326-2

Current Biology, Volume 23, Issue 23, R1057-R1062, 2 December 2013
Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
10.1016/j.cub.2013.10.051

Authors

J.M. Kilner, R.N. LemonSee Affiliations

Summary

Mirror neurons were discovered over twenty years ago in the ventral premotor region F5 of the macaque monkey. Since their discovery much has been written about these neurons, both in the scientific literature and in the popular press. They have been proposed to be the neuronal substrate underlying a vast array of different functions. Indeed so much has been written about mirror neurons that last year they were referred to, rightly or wrongly, as “The most hyped concept in neuroscience”. Here we try to cut through some of this hyperbole and review what is currently known (and not known) about mirror neurons.

A blogger discussing it here;
http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2013/12/a-calm-look-at-the-most-hyped-concept-in-neuroscience-mirror-neurons.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+3quarksdaily+%283quarksdaily%29