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John O'Keefe, FRS FMedSci (born November 18, 1939) is an American-British neuroscientist, psychologist and a professor at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour and the Research Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at University College London.
- United Kingdom, United States
- Discovering place cells
4 days ago · John O’Keefe is a British-American neuroscientist who contributed to the discovery of place cells in the hippocampus of the brain and elucidated their role in cognitive (spatial) mapping. O’Keefe’s investigations of impairments in the cognitive mapping abilities of rats had important implications.
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Throughout his career, O’Keefe has studied the hippocampus and its role in spatial memory and navigation, the loss of which is prominent in disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. His research has shown how networks of hippocampal neurons are involved in determining an animal’s location in the environment.
John O'Keefe (Photo credit: © David Bishop, UCL). His dream to become an aircraft mechanic was thwarted by a shipyard accident during the war. Most of his life was spent as a nightshift mechanic on the New York bus system, where he repaired the buses which became inoperative during the daytime and which couldn’t be fixed by the daytime ...
Oct 6, 2014 · Credit: David Bishop, UCL. Professor John O'Keefe, Director of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits & Behaviour and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, Division of Biosciences at UCL, has today been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of cells ...
John O’Keefe is a neuroscientist and Nobel laureate whose research transformed our understanding of spatial memory in the brain. He discovered that animals have an ‘internal GPS’, where individual cells respond to an animal’s physical position in space, creating a cognitive map.
Dec 20, 2023 · Scientist: John O'Keefe. Born in 1939 in New York, USA, John O’Keefe is an American-British neuroscientist and psychologist. He received a PhD in physiological psychology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 1967, and then moved to the United Kingdom to do research at University College London.
