Apart from being activated when an individual performs a motor act or observes another individual engaging in the same act, mirror neurons in humans are also connected with empathy, the evolution of language and even autism. Mirror neurons make people react or feel the same as the person they are watching, and this is known as empathy. However, for people with autism, they may have reduced mirror neuron activity which causes difficulties for them to detect feelings or empathize with other people.
The conversion of ADP to ATP can be written as ADP + Pi + energy → ATP or, in English, adenosine diphosphate plus inorganic phosphate plus energy gives adenosine triphosphate.
