May-Britt and Edvard Moser have rejoiced especially today.
The lectures in Aula Medica hall at Karolinska Institutet streamed and followed by people that are interested in all countries. According Edvard Moser gets a good portion understandable for most people, other parts of speech requires more insight. He’ll talk about grid cells, which is the greatest discovery of Moser pair. Afterwards May-Britt tell about the relationship between lattice cells and place cells.
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Fresh research
While the grid cells forming a basic pattern wherever the rat is, providing space cells that the animal remembers each room and unable to distinguish an environment from another. May-Britt Moser will present freshly research from mosses lab showing that rats unable to recognize rooms, although they are very similar.
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Pioneer
Before Moser couple should talk, it laureate John O’Keefe who will tell about the discovery of space cells. O’Keefe is the pioneer in the field. He came on the track of our sense of place in the early 70s when he discovered that there was correlation between the activity of brain cells and where the animal was located in the room. This takes place in the hippocampus, a center that is central to our memory.
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Rivals and partners
When May-Britt and Edvard Moser established his laboratory at NTNU had visited O’Keefe in advance to learn the method for sensing activity in brain cells of rats. The 75-year-old American-British O’Keefe is still active in research at University College London. While they are competitors, cooperate O’Keefe and Moser pair also in some projects.
Nobel Prize in medicine is divided by half to O’Keefe and half May-Britt and Edvard Moser.
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