2014年のノーベル医学生理学賞はジョン・オキーフ(John O’Keefe)教授(74)、ノルウェー科学技術大のマイブリット・モーセル(May-Britt Moser)教授(51)、エドバルト・モーセル(Edvard Moser)教授(52)(夫妻)の3氏に
参考
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser ”for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain (nobelprize.org)
- ノーベル医学生理学賞、オキーフ教授ら3氏に 脳のGPS発見 (MSNニュース)
- John O’Keefe is known for his discovery of place cells in the hippocampus and his discovery that they show temporal coding in the form of theta phase precession. (Wikipedia)
- Place cells were first discovered in the brain, and specifically in the hippocampus, by O’Keefe and Dostrovsky (1971).(Wikipedia)