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Nobel Prize in medicine 2014

06 Oct 2014 | By INSERM (Newsroom) | France | International

The Nobel Prize of physiology or medicine 2014 is awarded to John O’Keefe,  May-Britt and Edvard I. Moser for their work about for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.

May-Britt’s work, conducted with Edvard Moser as a long-term collaborator, includes the discovery of grid cells in the entorhinal cortex, as well as several additional space-representing cell types in the same circuit.

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Laboratoire de Neuropsychologie
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Unité Inserm 992 Neuroimagerie cognitive – Equipe Neuroimagerie des fonctions cognitives
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