NOBEL FOR ‘INNER GPS’: DISCOVERIES OF BRAIN'S MAPPING CELLS GET HIGH MEDICAL AWARD (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Monday, October 06, 2014, 11:08

Professor Ole Kiehn (R) presents the winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, U.S.-British scientist John O'Keefe and Norwegian husband and wife Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser, for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain, at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm October 6, 2014 (Reuters / Bertil Ericson)

The brain’s “inner GPS” – neurons that allow mapping and navigating in a complex environment - scored a Nobel Prize for medicine. The 2014 award went to American-British neurologist John O'Keefe and Norwegian scientist spouses May-Britt and Edvard Moser.

"The discoveries...have solved a problem that has occupied philosophers and scientists for centuries," the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute said Monday in a statement announcing the laureates.

"How does the brain create a map of the space surrounding us and how can we navigate our way through a complex environment?" the body added.

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