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...even more provocative result comes from a study undertaken in 2005 by UCLA developmental psychologist Mirella Dapretto and her colleagues. They found that autistic children, compared with other children, showed depressed activity in their premotor cortex while imitating or observing facial expressions--and the more severe the autism, the more depressed the activity was. The results did not surprise Dapretto. A central problem in autism, after all, is an impaired ability to understand the feelings of others, and it seems plausible, if far from proven, that a deficiency in the mirror-neuron system could be involved...
...Mirella A. de Rose...
Large co-ed groups in Canaday and Lionel gather each Wednesday evening to watch "Party of Five." Jonathan J. O'Donnell '01 hosts the weekly watching for friends Brian F. Shaughnessy '01, Kyle F. Shinners '01, Mirella A. DeRose '01, and several devoted entrywaymates. O'Donnell is not ashamed to be a male nighttime soap fan and flaunts his knowledge of the shows, saying "Party of Five" wins because of Jennifer Love Hewitt, my future wife. The show is better than `Beverly Hills 90210' since Brandon thinks he's a `tough guy' and Donna is just so ugly with...
Pique Dame (The Queen of Spades)--performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Mirella Freni and Vladimir Atlantov at Boston Symphony Hall. Call 266-1200. Wednesday...
...Soprano Mirella Freni, 56, will not sing Madama Butterfly onstage. The part is so heavily emotional that she feels it could upset the vocal balance she has spent a lifetime achieving. Luciano Pavarotti has just won acclaim for his first Otello, and most musical experts think he was right to wait until age 55 to try the heroic role. The list of parts that tenor Alfredo Kraus, 63, will not touch reads almost like a chart of opera's greatest hits, including Cavaradossi in Tosca and Rodolfo in La Boheme. Kraus sticks strictly to lighter parts that do not strain...