Mirror neurons and their relationship with neurodegenerative disorders

Emotion Detection Deficits and Decreased Empathy in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease Affect Caregiver Mood and Burden

(2018) Maria Martinez et al.   Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

A Modified Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test Predicts Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia Better Than Executive Function Tests

(2018) Matthias L. Schroeter et al.   Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Postural Stabilization Strategies to Motor Contagion Induced by Action Observation Are Impaired in Parkinson’s Disease

(2018) Elisa Pelosin et al.   Frontiers in Neurology

Theory of Mind in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: An fMRI Study

(2018) Francesca Baglio et al.   JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE

Neural correlates of action: Comparing meta-analyses of imagery, observation, and execution

(2018) Robert M. Hardwick et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Action observation in the modification of postural sway and gait: Theory and use in rehabilitation

(2017) Mitesh Patel   GAIT & POSTURE

Theory of mind performance in Parkinson’s disease is associated with motor and cognitive functions, but not with symptom lateralization

(2017) Lisa Nobis et al.   JOURNAL OF NEURAL TRANSMISSION

Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies

(2017) Ian G. McKeith et al.   NEUROLOGY

Practice guideline update summary: Mild cognitive impairment

(2017) Ronald C. Petersen et al.   NEUROLOGY

Two different mirror neuron networks: The sensorimotor (hand) and limbic (face) pathways

(2017) P.F. Ferrari et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Losing ground: Frontostriatal atrophy disrupts language embodiment in Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease

(2017) Agustina Birba et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Action observation and motor imagery for rehabilitation in Parkinson's disease: A systematic review and an integrative hypothesis

(2017) Daniele Caligiore et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Effects of action observation therapy and mirror therapy after stroke on rehabilitation outcomes and neural mechanisms by MEG: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

(2017) Tsai-yu Shih et al.   Trials

The Mirror Neurons Network in Aging, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Alzheimer Disease: A functional MRI Study

(2017) Elisabetta Farina et al.   Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Impaired Emotional Mirroring in Parkinson’s Disease—A Study on Brain Activation during Processing of Facial Expressions

(2017) Anna Pohl et al.   Frontiers in Neurology

Facial Emotion Recognition and Expression in Parkinson’s Disease: An Emotional Mirror Mechanism?

(2017) Lucia Ricciardi et al.   PLoS One

Neuronal Encoding of Self and Others’ Head Rotation in the Macaque Dorsal Prefrontal Cortex

(2017) M. Lanzilotto et al.   Scientific Reports

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ACTION OBSERVATION TREATMENT (AOT) IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE: BENEFIT ON TEMPORAL ORIENTATION AND VISUO-PRASSIC ABILITIES

(2016) Paolo Caffarra et al.   Alzheimers & Dementia

Randomized Controlled Trial of a Home-Based Action Observation Intervention to Improve Walking in Parkinson Disease

(2016) Abhishek Jaywant et al.   ARCHIVES OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION

Persistent sparing of action conceptual processing in spite of increasing disorders of action production: A case against motor embodiment of action concepts

(2016) Gilles Vannuscorps et al.   COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

Mu suppression – A good measure of the human mirror neuron system?

(2016) Hannah M. Hobson et al.   CORTEX

Functional dissociation between anterior temporal lobe and inferior frontal gyrus in the processing of dynamic body expressions: Insights from behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

(2016) Jan Jastorff et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

The Road Less Traveled: Alternative Pathways for Action-Verb Processing in Parkinson’s Disease

(2016) Sofía Abrevaya et al.   JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE

Brain plasticity in Parkinson’s disease with freezing of gait induced by action observation training

(2016) Federica Agosta et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

Impaired perception of biological motion in Parkinson’s disease.

(2016) Abhishek Jaywant et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

Mirror Neurons and Mirror-Touch Synesthesia

(2016) Omer Linkovski et al.   NEUROSCIENTIST

The Extended Mirror Neuron Network

(2016) Luca Bonini   NEUROSCIENTIST

Assessing human mirror activity with EEG mu rhythm: A meta-analysis.

(2016) Nathan A. Fox et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Differential Patterns of Dysconnectivity in Mirror Neuron and Mentalizing Networks in Schizophrenia

(2016) Leonhard Schilbach et al.   SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN

Voluntary Imitation in Alzheimer’s Disease Patients

(2016) Ambra Bisio et al.   Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Mirror Visual Feedback to Improve Bradykinesia in Parkinson’s Disease

(2016) Gaia Bonassi et al.   NEURAL PLASTICITY

Theory of mind impairment in patients with behavioural variant fronto-temporal dementia (bv-FTD) increases caregiver burden

(2015) Andrea Brioschi Guevara et al.   AGE AND AGEING

Corticostriate Projections from Areas of the “Lateral Grasping Network”: Evidence for Multiple Hand-Related Input Channels

(2015) Marzio Gerbella et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Cross-modal repetition effects in the mu rhythm indicate tactile mirroring during action observation

(2015) Michel-Pierre Coll et al.   CORTEX

Activating the motor system through action observation: is this an efficient approach in adults and children?

(2015) Michela Bassolino et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE AND CHILD NEUROLOGY

Altered cortical activation during action observation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients: a parametric functional MRI study

(2015) Haiqing Li et al.   EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY

A human homologue of monkey F5c

(2015) S. Ferri et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Postural and Balance Disorders in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: A Prospective Open-Label Feasibility Study with Two Months of Action Observation Treatment

(2015) Andrea Santamato et al.   Parkinsons Disease

Action Observation and Motor Imagery: Innovative Cognitive Tools in the Rehabilitation of Parkinson’s Disease

(2015) Giovanni Abbruzzese et al.   Parkinsons Disease

Exploring Music-Based Rehabilitation for Parkinsonism through Embodied Cognitive Science

(2015) Andrea Schiavio et al.   Frontiers in Neurology

Action Processing and Mirror Neuron Function in Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: An fMRI Study

(2015) Laura Jelsone-Swain et al.   PLoS One

Embodied Cognition and Mirror Neurons: A Critical Assessment

(2014) Alfonso Caramazza et al.   Annual Review of Neuroscience

Mirror neurons: From origin to function

(2014) Richard Cook et al.   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Event-related mu-rhythm desynchronization during movement observation is impaired in Parkinson’s disease

(2014) T. Heida et al.   CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Frontotemporal neural systems supporting semantic processing in Alzheimer’s disease

(2014) Jonathan E. Peelle et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Neural substrates of levodopa-responsive gait disorders and freezing in advanced Parkinson's disease: A kinesthetic imagery approach

(2014) Audrey Maillet et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

The mirror neuron system and the strange case of Broca's area

(2014) Gabriella Cerri et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

Action verb comprehension in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease

(2014) Collin York et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

Discrimination and recognition of facial expressions of emotion and their links with voluntary control of facial musculature in Parkinson’s disease.

(2014) Michelle Marneweck et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

The mirror mechanism: recent findings and perspectives

(2014) G. Rizzolatti et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Action observation treatment: a novel tool in neurorehabilitation

(2014) G. Buccino   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evidence for a causal inverse model in an avian cortico-basal ganglia circuit

(2014) N. Giret et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Primary empathy deficits in frontotemporal dementia

(2014) Sandra Baez et al.   Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Atypical Cross Talk Between Mentalizing and Mirror Neuron Networks in Autism Spectrum Disorder

(2014) Inna Fishman et al.   JAMA Psychiatry

Effectiveness of Cholinesterase Inhibitors and Memantine for Treating Dementia: Evidence Review for a Clinical Practice Guideline

(2013) Parminder Raina et al.   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Time to get a move on: Overcoming bradykinetic movement in Parkinson's disease with artificial sensory guidance generated from biological motion

(2013) Marta M.N. Bieńkiewicz et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Action-verb processing in Parkinson’s disease: new pathways for motor–language coupling

(2013) Juan Felipe Cardona et al.   Brain Structure & Function

Behavioral and language variants of frontotemporal dementia: A review of key symptoms

(2013) Robert Laforce   CLINICAL NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY

The neuroscience of action semantics in neurodegenerative brain diseases

(2013) Thomas H. Bak   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROLOGY

Structural brain network imaging shows expanding disconnection of the motor system in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2013) Esther Verstraete et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

The role of embodied simulation in mental transformation of whole-body images: Evidence from Parkinson’s disease

(2013) Massimiliano Conson et al.   HUMAN MOVEMENT SCIENCE

Do mirror neuron areas mediate mu rhythm suppression during imitation and action observation?

(2013) Lieke Braadbaart et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

Tools and talk: An evolutionary perspective on the functional deficits associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2013) Andrew Eisen et al.   MUSCLE & NERVE

Motor cognition–motor semantics: Action perception theory of cognition and communication

(2013) Friedemann Pulvermüller et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Time perception of visual motion is tuned by the motor representation of human actions

(2013) Gioele Gavazzi et al.   Scientific Reports

Emotional empathy in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a behavioural and voxel-based morphometry study

(2013) Chiara Cerami et al.   Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration

Exploring motor and visual imagery in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

(2013) F. Fiori et al.   EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Compensatory premotor activity during affective face processing in subclinical carriers of a single mutant Parkin allele

(2012) S. Anders et al.   BRAIN

Connectional Heterogeneity of the Ventral Part of the Macaque Area 46

(2012) M. Gerbella et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Improving upper limb motor functions through action observation treatment: a pilot study in children with cerebral palsy

(2012) GIOVANNI BUCCINO et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE AND CHILD NEUROLOGY

Neural activities during affective processing in people with Alzheimer's disease

(2012) Tatia M.C. Lee et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING

Motor resonance mechanisms are preserved in Alzheimer’s disease patients

(2012) A. Bisio et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Action observation versus motor imagery in learning a complex motor task: A short review of literature and a kinematics study

(2012) R. Gatti et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Mirror neurons: Functions, mechanisms and models

(2012) Erhan Oztop et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Mirror neuron function, psychosis, and empathy in schizophrenia

(2012) Laurie M. McCormick et al.   PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH-NEUROIMAGING

Upper limb children action-observation training (UP-CAT): a randomised controlled trial in Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy

(2011) Giuseppina Sgandurra et al.   BMC Neurology

Sensitivity of revised diagnostic criteria for the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia

(2011) Katya Rascovsky et al.   BRAIN

What wires together dies together: Verbs, actions and neurodegeneration in motor neuron disease

(2011) Thomas H. Bak et al.   CORTEX

View-Based Encoding of Actions in Mirror Neurons of Area F5 in Macaque Premotor Cortex

(2011) Vittorio Caggiano et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Action Observation Circuits in the Macaque Monkey Cortex

(2011) K. Nelissen et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Anatomical Evidence for the Involvement of the Macaque Ventrolateral Prefrontal Area 12r in Controlling Goal-Directed Actions

(2011) E. Borra et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

 -Suppression during Action Observation and Execution Correlates with BOLD in Dorsal Premotor, Inferior Parietal, and SI Cortices

(2011) D. Arnstein et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The mirror system, theory of mind and Parkinson's disease

(2011) Manuel Alegre et al.   JOURNAL OF THE NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES

Emotion recognition impairment in Parkinson's disease patients without dementia

(2011) Elena Herrera et al.   JOURNAL OF THE NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES

Action observation treatment improves autonomy in daily activities in Parkinson's disease patients: Results from a pilot study

(2011) Giovanni Buccino et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Emotional processing in Parkinson's disease: A systematic review

(2011) Julie Péron et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Brain regions with mirror properties: A meta-analysis of 125 human fMRI studies

(2011) Pascal Molenberghs et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Magnetoencephalography Study of Right Parietal Lobe Dysfunction of the Evoked Mirror Neuron System in Antipsychotic-Free Schizophrenia

(2011) Yutaka Kato et al.   PLoS One

Behavioral patterns and lesion sites associated with impaired processing of lexical and conceptual knowledge of actions

(2010) David Kemmerer et al.   CORTEX

Coming of age: A review of embodiment and the neuroscience of semantics

(2010) Lotte Meteyard et al.   CORTEX

Single-Neuron Responses in Humans during Execution and Observation of Actions

(2010) Roy Mukamel et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The role of the superior temporal sulcus and the mirror neuron system in imitation

(2010) Pascal Molenberghs et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

The Relationship of Language and Emotion: N400 Support for an Embodied View of Language Comprehension

(2010) Dorothee J. Chwilla et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Interference Effects from Observed Movement in Parkinson's Disease

(2010) Neil B. Albert et al.   JOURNAL OF MOTOR BEHAVIOR

Subregions of the inferior parietal lobule are affected in the progression to Alzheimer's disease

(2010) Sarah J. Greene et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING

Brain responses to facial expressions of pain: Emotional or motor mirroring?

(2010) Lesley Budell et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Deficits in emotional and social cognition in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

(2010) Alessandra Girardi et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

IMPAIRED FACIAL EMOTION RECOGNITION AND PRESERVED REACTIVITY TO FACIAL EXPRESSIONS IN PEOPLE WITH SEVERE DEMENTIA

(2009) A. Guaita et al.   ARCHIVES OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS

Aging affects the mental simulation/planning of the “rising from the floor” sequence

(2009) Arnaud Saimpont et al.   ARCHIVES OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS

The use of visual feedback, in particular mirror visual feedback, in restoring brain function

(2009) V. S. Ramachandran et al.   BRAIN

Ventral Premotor and Inferior Parietal Cortices Make Distinct Contribution to Action Organization and Intention Understanding

(2009) Luca Bonini et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Changes in subthalamic activity during movement observation in Parkinson’s disease: Is the mirror system mirrored in the basal ganglia?

(2009) M. Alegre et al.   CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Object naming and action-verb generation in Parkinson's disease: A fMRI study

(2009) Patrice Péran et al.   CORTEX

Observation of Hand Movements by Older Persons with Dementia: Effects on Cognition

(2009) Laura H.P. Eggermont et al.   DEMENTIA AND GERIATRIC COGNITIVE DISORDERS

Empathy in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease

(2009) Diego Fernandez-Duque et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

Impaired Social Cognition in Mild Alzheimer Disease

(2009) Benoit Bediou et al.   JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY

The Representation of Tool Use in Humans and Monkeys: Common and Uniquely Human Features

(2009) R. Peeters et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Evidence of Mirror Neurons in Human Inferior Frontal Gyrus

(2009) J. M. Kilner et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

MCI patients’ EEGs show group differences between those who progress and those who do not progress to AD

(2009) D.V. Moretti et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING

Corticospinal Neurons in Macaque Ventral Premotor Cortex with Mirror Properties: A Potential Mechanism for Action Suppression?

(2009) Alexander Kraskov et al.   NEURON

Modulation of beta oscillations in the subthalamic area during action observation in Parkinson's disease

(2009) S. Marceglia et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Aging Affects the Mental Rotation of Left and Right Hands

(2009) Arnaud Saimpont et al.   PLoS One

Mirror Neurons Differentially Encode the Peripersonal and Extrapersonal Space of Monkeys

(2009) V. Caggiano et al.   SCIENCE

The recognition of facial expressions of emotion in Alzheimer’s disease: a review of findings

(2008) Tracey McLellan et al.   ACTA NEUROPSYCHIATRICA

Imitation, Empathy, and Mirror Neurons

(2008) Marco Iacoboni   Annual Review of Psychology

Mirroring and mu rhythm involvement in social cognition: Are there dissociable subcomponents of theory of mind?

(2008) J.A. Pineda et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Is the human primary motor cortex activated by muscular or direction-dependent features of observed movements?

(2008) Kaat Alaerts et al.   CORTEX

Visual motion interferes with lexical decision on motion words

(2008) Lotte Meteyard et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

fMRI Adaptation Reveals Mirror Neurons in Human Inferior Parietal Cortex

(2008) Trevor T.-J. Chong et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Transcranial magnetic stimulation improves naming in Alzheimer disease patients at different stages of cognitive decline

(2008) M. Cotelli et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

Name agreement, frequency and age of acquisition, but not grammatical class, affect object and action naming in Spanish speaking participants with Alzheimer's disease

(2008) Javier Rodríguez-Ferreiro et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS

Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment deteriorate fine movement control

(2008) Jin H. Yan et al.   JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH

Recognition of emotions from visual and prosodic cues in Parkinson’s disease

(2008) Alessandra Ariatti et al.   NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES

Impaired action knowledge in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2008) M. Grossman et al.   NEUROLOGY

Testing the connection of the mirror system and speech

(2008) Simone Kühn et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Specific impairments in the recognition of emotional facial expressions in Parkinson's disease

(2008) Uraina S. Clark et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Visuomotor priming effects in Parkinson's disease patients depend on the match between the observed and the executed action

(2008) Umberto Castiello et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Embodied Language: A Review of the Role of the Motor System in Language Comprehension

(2008) Martin H. Fischer et al.   QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Processing Abstract Language Modulates Motor System Activity

(2008) Arthur M. Glenberg et al.   QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Reduced motor facilitation during action observation in schizophrenia: A mirror neuron deficit?

(2008) P ENTICOTT et al.   SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH

Internally Generated Reactivation of Single Neurons in Human Hippocampus During Free Recall

(2008) H. Gelbard-Sagiv et al.   SCIENCE

Grounded Cognition

(2007) Lawrence W. Barsalou   Annual Review of Psychology

Mirroring others' emotions relates to empathy and interpersonal competence in children

(2007) Jennifer H. Pfeifer et al.   NEUROIMAGE