Empathy is a skill as opposed to an innate capability. Some emerging neuroscience work suggests that empathy arises from these mirror neurons. When your brain understands someone else. So this kind of feeling with, which is a powerful automatic way of understanding others,. maybe the thing that drives us to be friends with other people whose brains work like ours.
There's no such thing as a "normal" brain. And according to Dr. Chantel Prat, a neuroscientist at the University of Washington, that's a very good thing indeed. In her new book, "The Neuroscience of You," Chantel tells readers how their brains got to be the way they are, and today on the show, she explains how to get the most out of the brain you've got.
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