The professor. Rizzolatti met students, teachers and researchers
June 1, 2017 - A day that many in Ucbm will remember for a long time: last May 19th, Professor Giacomo Rizzolatti, discoverer of mirror neurons and internationally renowned neurophysiologist, kept students and teachers glued to their seats for about two hours. Winner in 2014 of the prestigious international #Brain award (awarded by the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation of Copenhagen), the scientist has entered the Scientific Committee of the Institute of Philosophy of Scientific and Technological Action of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma and, on the occasion, held a double lesson in the University's main hall.
Professor Rizzolatti, director of the Neuroscience department of the University of Parma, spoke in a Physiology lesson, talking about "Organization of the cortical motor system: objects and space" and the latest discoveries relating to some areas of the brain. The scientist then gave a masterful lecture dedicated to mirror neurons, that "mirror" theory which explains how our brain is not only able to understand and make certain emotions its own, but, on the contrary, "possesses" them like a real and its core assets. A conception that, over twenty years after its formulation, still fascinates and stimulates researchers in the study of the brain and in the search for new solutions for neurological diseases. As in the case of epilepsy, for which Professor Rizzolatti is working on the search for a cure: 25-30 percent of patients cannot in fact be treated with drugs.
