1.0 link 207055 <![CDATA[I Feel Your Pain: Fact or Fiction]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-larry-dossey/i-feel-your-pain-fact-or_b_207055.html Bill Clinton famously told Americans, "I feel your pain." Was the prez speaking truthfully or was he, as his detractors claimed, just an oily politician currying favor from suffering citizens?

In the past few years, neuroscientists have discovered that individuals may indeed feel the pain of someone else. This conclusion is based on the discovery of "mirror neurons" in the brain, which fire both when a person engages in an activity or merely witnesses someone else who is engaged in the...

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