Emotional Mirror Neurons in Rats

Photo: Nancy Wong, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have demonstrated that specific neurons in the rat brain are active both when a rat experiences pain itself and when it observes another rat in pain. The results, published today in Current Biology, suggest that sharing the emotions of others is a common mammalian trait.

Read my article on the study here: Rats Feel One Another's Pain.

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