"It seems we're wired to see other people as similar to us, rather than different. At the root, as humans we identify the person we're facing as someone like ourselves." —Neuroscientist Vittorio ...

Human imitation is more complicated than simply viewing and copying an action, even for kids says Greg Hickok.(Ebby May/Getty Images) In the early 1990s a team of neuroscientists reported a new class ...

For example, the social isolation displayed in many individuals with an addiction (also explained by other factors such as shame, stigma, and rejection), could be explored from this mirror neuron ...