mother-infant bond,in which a mother is able to instinctively sense her child's needs and respond accordingly.The discovery of the neurons has also led to the development of a new theory of the mind, in which it is argued that children loam that others have cognitive patterns similar to their own,and through this,gain the comfort that others'behavior is neither random nor chaotic〇n the flip side, researchers are also looking into how autism - the inability to form emotional bonds with others and see the world as they do-may be explained by alack of functioning mirror neurons.Research by a team at the University of Montreal showed that neurons which activated properly in non-autistic subjects when they watched hand movements of others did not fire in the brains of those with autism who witnessed similar movements.
Recent findings concerning mirror neurons may also be relevant
to the field of psychotherapy,in which therapists try to connect with
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