{"id":192,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","slug":"mirror-neurons?","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"Mirror Neurons?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #006699\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Mirror Neurons, the basis for copying Speech &amp; Stress ?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">If you stick out your tongue to a baby, chances are that the baby will&nbsp;imitate you spontaneously. Or watch how often a yawning adult makes someone else yawning as well.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Researchers working with monkeys, in the&nbsp;90&rsquo;s, 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=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Hence the name &lsquo;mirror neurons&rsquo;.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><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=\"font-size: small;\"><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&rsquo;s bad day hijack another&rsquo;s brain? Their Sweat?!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><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&rsquo;s <a href=\"?p=574\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">amygdala<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">This part is also activated, when we perceive someone as a threat. Thus, unlike physical exercise-sweat, inhaling other&rsquo;s 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=\"font-size: small;\"><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: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">acts of empathy<\/span><\/a>, kindness, and patience for others, meditation, or applying <a href=\"?p=233\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">our practices<\/span><\/a> will relax you the most. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: #006699\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Axons-&amp;-Synapses.gif\" style=\"width: 245px; height: 193px\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\"><a href=\"?p=868\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mirror Neurons, the basis for copying Speech &amp; Stress ? If you stick out your tongue to a baby, chances are that the baby will&nbsp;imitate you spontaneously. Or watch how often a yawning adult makes someone else yawning as well. Researchers working with monkeys, in the&nbsp;90&rsquo;s, identified a group of neurons in their frontal cortex&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}