Mirror system based therapy for autism spectrum disorders

This paper reviews the present theories and empirical research of autisms’cognitive research and mir-ror systems and introduces a new hypothesis about the causes of autism spectrum disorders(ASD):autistic mir-ror neuron dysfunction hypothesis.ASD subjects show obvious lack of the activation of the mirror system during the task of observation or emotional cognition.It is sig-nificant to investigate the mirror system for revealing the causes of autism and it is also helpful for developing new ways to diagnose or treat this disorder.