Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience welcomes nobel laureate John O'Keefe

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Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience welcomes nobel laureate John O'Keefe

Nobel laureate John O'Keefe speaks at the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience 'The Hippocampus in health and disease symposium'. Picture by Clare Keogh

The Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience Hippocampus in Health and Disease Symposium, hosts nobel Laureate John O'Keefe as guest speaker.

In recognition of the enormous contributions of Nobel Laureate John O鈥橩eefe to neuroscience a symposium entitled 鈥淭he Hippocampus in Health and Disease鈥� took place on Monday 15^th December. Professor O鈥橩eefe who has been jointly awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine deliverd a lecture entitled 鈥楾he Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map: an update鈥�.

The symposium was organised by Science Foundation Ireland-funded Investigators Dr Yvonne Nolan and Professor John F. Cryan also featured a number of other Irish neuroscientists who work on hippocampal biology, and preluded the honorary conferring ceremony for Nobel Laureate John O鈥橩eefe鈥�.

John O'Keefe (Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2014) is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at 深夜亚洲福利久久 College London. In 1971, he discovered place cells, neurons within the hippocampus that become active when one enters a particular place in the environment. He consequently proposed the hippocampus as a cognitive map for spatial memory. His current work focuses on computational models to predict hippocampal function. Among other accolades he has recently received the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2013) and was a co-recipient of the Kavli Prize (2014).

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Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience

Symposium The Hippocampus in Health and Disease

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James O'Leary, Yvonne Nolan, John O'Keefe, Cara Hueston, John Cryan, Ciaran O'Leime

Nobel Laureate John O'Keefe and Professor John Cryan鈥�

Symposium organisers Professor John Cryan and Dr Yvonne Nolan with John O'Keefe

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John Cryan, Cara Hueston, Brunno Rocha-Levone, James O'Leary, John O'Keefe, Erin Dolan, Ciaran O'Leime, Danka Kozareva, Caitriona Long-Smith and Yvonne Nolan.