Mirror Neuron System (IMAGE)

Vanderbilt University

Mirror Neuron System

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This is an illustration of the mirror neuron system in the human brain which has been implicated in the impaired ability to imitate experienced by many patients with schizophrenia.

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Jan Brascamp

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