entorhinal cortex

The Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine for 2014 has been awarded to three neuroscientists; John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser.  They have received the prize for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain. May-Britt and Edvard Moser is a young, married couple from Trondheim, Norway, that during the last decade has published a series of Science and Nature papers on the grid cells in the entorhinal cortex of the brain. They show how the brain creates a map of the space surrounding us and how we can navigate through a complex environment by using these cells.

The Nobel Assembly has decided to award the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine to three European Neuroscientists with one half to John O´Keefe and the other half jointly to the couple May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser for their discoveries of cells “that constitute a positioning system in the brain, an inner GPS in the brain, that makes it possible to orient ourselves in space, demonstrating a cellular basis for higher cognitive function“.