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May-Britt Moser (4 de janeiro de 1963) é uma psicóloga e neurocientista norueguesa, chefe do departamento do Centro de Computação Neural na Universidade Norueguesa de Ciência e Tecnologia .
May-Britt Moser is a Norwegian neuroscientist who discovered cells that form a positioning system in the brain with her husband Edvard Moser. She is a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014.
17 de abr. de 2024 · Em 2014, ela recebeu o Prêmio Nobel de Fisiologia ou Medicina pelas pesquisas desenvolvidas sobre o hipocampo e o córtex entorrinal, partes essenciais à memória humana. O prêmio foi dividido com seu ex-marido, o também neurocientista norueguês Edvard Moser, e o britânico John O’Keefe.
May Britt Moser is a professor at NTNU and a co-founder of the Centre for Algorithms in the Cortex. She shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 with Edvard I. Moser and John O'Keefe for their discoveries of grid cells and place cells.
- Schoolyears
- The University of Oslo
- Terje Sagvolden and Per Andersen
- Building A Water Maze Lab
- Looking For LTP
- The Pink Poster
- Funding For Two PhDs
- Phd Research
- Children and The Lab
- Edinburgh and London
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I was not always the best student with the highest grades, but my teachers saw something in me and tried to encourage me. My mother had persuaded the local school officials to let me start school a year earlier than other students because my birthday was in January (the cut-off was the end of December) and because she saw that I was ready. My main ...
When it came time to go to university, I decided I would go to the University of Oslo, in part because I had two older sisters in the Oslo area. I was also able to live for some time with one sister in Asker, an hour outside Oslo, while I looked for a place to live. I loved university, it was fantastic – there was so much freedom, and I was very so...
We started in Terje Sagvolden’s lab during our second semester. He was studying hyperactivity in rats. At the same time, our own relationship had changed from a friendship to a romance, and we got engaged on top of Mt. Kilimanjaro. It was a dream place for both of us – Edvard loves volcanoes, all volcanoes, and since my childhood encounters with mi...
Per wanted us to build a water maze literally from scratch – a tank 2 metres in diameter by 50 cm high. When we left the meeting, I said to Edvard, “This is crazy!” Fortunately my brother-in-law worked at Det Norske Veritas and I called him, and he was able to help us buy a tank. We also had to get a marine pump so we could pump 1,250 litres of wat...
Per’s idea was to give the animals extensive training in the water maze so after they had learned a lot, we could measure the changes in the tiny hippocampal slice that was left in the brain. He predicted that this slice would have increased synaptic efficiency (LTP) compared to animals who did not learn. He was so excited when he told us about his...
Per was president of the European Neuroscience Association (ENA) at that time, and so he allowed us to bring a poster of our research to a meeting of the ENA in Sweden. I have to confess that when I made the poster, I made it pink as a way to tease Per a bit. But maybe the pink also helped it to stand out, because when Richard Morris walked past th...
Our experiment also raised the question, if the dorsal part is involved in memory, what does the ventral part do? So we started to read a lot about anatomy, and wondered about the nature of the connections between the entorhinal cortex and the dorsal and the ventral parts of the hippocampus. That was the first time we wrote to Menno Witter at the F...
By then we had gotten married, on July 27, 1985 in Oslo. We had the same supervisor, we were studying the same structure in the brain, but we still both got funded from the Research Council of Norway. It was about this time that I realised how insistent I could be – I was always very nice and polite, but if I really wanted something, no one could s...
Many people ask me how I managed to do all this work with two small children – Isabel was born in June 1991, right after we started our PhDs (Fig. 2 and Fig. 3), and Ailin was born in 1995 (Fig. 4), right before we completed our PhDs. The answer is that we were so driven to understand the brain that we simply made things work, we could not see any ...
During our PhD work, Richard Morris had invited Edvard and me to the University of Edinburgh to follow up on our master’s research findings on the difference between the dorsal and the ventral part of the hippocampus, but using chemical lesions instead of aspiration. We went there several times during our PhDs, and confirmed our earlier results – t...
Learn about the life and work of May-Britt Moser, who shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine with Edvard Moser for their discoveries of the brain circuits for spatial navigation. Read about her childhood, education, research, and marriage in this biographical profile.
Neuroscientist May-Britt Moser persisted in a decades-long quest to understand how the brain worked at a cellular level. She persevered through a series of challenges – from a reluctant PhD advisor to the birth of two daughters – with a stubborn sense of purpose.
May-Britt Moser (born January 4, 1963, Fosnavåg, Norway) is a Norwegian neuroscientist who contributed to the discovery of grid cells in the brain and the elucidation of their role in generating a system of mental coordinates by which animals are able to navigate their environment.
