{"id":192,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:29:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:29:29","slug":"mirror-neurons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"MIRROR NEURONS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The basis for copying Speech &amp; Stress ?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">If you stick out your tongue to a baby, chances are that the baby will\u00a0imitate you spontaneously. Or watch how often a yawning adult makes someone else yawning as well.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Researchers working with monkeys, identified a group of neurons in their frontal cortex that were not only activated in monkeys who made a particular motion with their hand or mouth, but also in monkeys who were just watching other monkeys perform it. <span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Hence the name \u2018mirror neurons\u2019.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">In humans, these neurons appear to also inform us about the intentions and emotional expressions of others. Such neural circuits appear to be important for experiencing empathy. However, reinstating other&#8217;s emotions can be a serious mood-killer if they are stressed and anxious.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The dangers of secondhand stress and its contagious nature have long been considered obstacles to workplace productivity and general health and well-being. How can someone\u2019s bad day hijack another\u2019s brain? Their Sweat?!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Stress leads to perspiration, which leads to the release of chemical secretions that unconsciously impact brain activity and behavior when inhaled by others. Scans showed that a mere whiff of stress-sweat activates the brain\u2019s <a href=\"?p=574\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">amygdala<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">This part is also activated, when we perceive someone as a threat. Thus, unlike physical exercise-sweat, inhaling other\u2019s stress-sweat causes our brain to perceive and treat them as a potential threat, even if they seem totally harmless. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">In order for ourselves to be perceived positively, we need to be as stress-free as possible. Besides physical exercise, <a href=\"?p=263\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">acts of empathy<\/span><\/a>, kindness, and patience for others, meditation, or applying <a href=\"?p=233\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">our practices<\/span><\/a> will relax you the most. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"color: #006699;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 245px; height: 193px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Axons-&amp;-Synapses.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=868\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The basis for copying Speech &amp; Stress ? If you stick out your tongue to a baby, chances are that the baby will\u00a0imitate you spontaneously. Or watch how often a yawning adult makes someone else yawning as well. Researchers working with monkeys, identified a group of neurons in their frontal cortex that were not only&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9248,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/9248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}