%0 Journal Article %T Mirror Neurons in Psychiatric Disorders: from Neuroception to Bio-behavioral System Dysregulation %A Amedeo Minichino %A Kristin Cadenhead %J Archive of "Neuropsychopharmacology". %D 2017 %R 10.1038/npp.2016.220 %X Impairments in mind-reading abilities (ie, mentalization, empathy) represent core psychopathological features and key therapeutic targets in patients with schizophrenia (SCZ) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) (Ciaramidaro et al, 2015). A functional mirror neuron system (MNS) is considered a prerequisite of these abilities (see Dinstein et al, 2010 for alternative views) %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5143509/