A recent study has found that by the age of three, children are already able to understand the intentions behind other people’s actions, thanks to a sophisticated neural system involving mirror ...

Seeing is doing – at least it is when mirror neurons are working normally. But in autistic individuals, say researchers from the University of California, San Diego, the brain circuits that enable ...

This post is in response to Autism and the Brain: What Does the Research Say? By Katherine K.M. Stavropoulos Ph.D. I mentioned in the last blog entry that I wanted to give an overview of the most ...