Mirror Cells in brain, basis of compassion for the poor?

[oscar111]

anyone know a lot about the new discovery of

mirror cells?

do they explain the RW inability to have compassion?

i only read a brief story on the cells.

exactly where in brain are they?

can TMS .. serious university research with powerful magnets.. stimulate them?

transcranial mag stimulation mag the size of your fist, pulsed.

[riverwalker]

1. yup. It explains RW being void of empathy

http://www.sciencemaster.com/columns/wesson/wesson_part_04.php

"Thus, mirror neurons faithfully assist in "reading" the intentions of others, and they play a critically important, behind-the-scenes, role in empathy, imitation learning, deciphering facial cues, early language development, social skills and cultural rules by allowing us the ability to predict, mimic and understand the actions of others. During verbal discourse, even anticipating another person’s words as they complete a sentence seems to be associated with these newly discovered neurons."
"There is fairly clear and convincing evidence of what can occur when mirror neurons go awry. Without properly functioning mirror neurons, a child may not understand or empathize with other people and therefore, he will completely withdraw emotionally and socially from the rest of the world. These are the cardinal traits of the autistic child. Antisocial serial killers, interestingly, demonstrate little activity in the F5 region of the brain."

[oscar111]

2. I predict 'the F5 region" will be the central catchphrase of political

theory classes in the near future.

Genes for the F5 - should they be spliced into adults, using viral vector "trucks" which can insert genes into all the cells of adults of any age?