Type into Google ‘Mirror Neurons’ and see how many results pop up. 927,000 to be exact. This could give an indication of how much information there is on the subject, but to delve a bit deeper we must actually click on some of these 927,000 results. The name Vilayanur Ramachandran , now deeply encoded into my long term memory banks, is everywhere on these sites. He is the leading researcher in this area and is one of the only experts in these particular neurons. Several studies have been done in the United States and several more in countries ahead in neuroscience technologies like China, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Switzerland and Canada. All of the studies done, even with a very wide variety of variables, have the same conclusion. In 80% of the tested individuals with autism spectrum disorders a malfunction in their mirror neuron system is exposed. Many of the sources found using Google are accounts, summaries, and results from these same handful of experiments. Because of the similarity in procedure and results of these studies I am having a lot of trouble
finding new sources to use that will not make all of my papers the same drone of information just presented in a different box with a new shinny bow. There is plenty of support for the theory, but not a lot of unique views on the subject because the topic is still relatively new to researchers. However, type ‘autism’ into Google and over 16,600,000 results come out. In discussing the implications of mirror neurons in autism I must establish what autism is and why mirror neurons could be a large piece of the puzzle in some cases of autism. There is not a set standard for what exactly autism is and I will need to discuss that in great detail in my paper. I believe that with expansion and explanation, I can easily write an eight page paper discussing this topic extensively without struggling.
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