Nobel Prize Stories by High School Students. Dr. May-Britt Moser -The Neural Grid System -Physiology or Medicine 2014.
(This article is a summary of the full-length article Authored by Mr. S.Jayanth (Jay) Tamirisa, Dallas, TX, USA. It’s one of the 14 Chapters written by high school students and published in the PATH TO NOBEL book).
The book can be purchased at -https://www.afhdusa.org/item/5/path-to-nobel.
Dr. May-Britt Moser is a distinguished neuroscientist who was born on January 4, 1963, in Fosnavåg, Norway. Her early life on a small farm instilled in her a strong work ethic and a deep curiosity about the natural world. This curiosity led her to pursue a career in neuroscience, where she would make groundbreaking discoveries about the brain’s spatial navigation system.
She attended the University of Oslo, where she met her future husband, Edvard Moser. They shared a common interest in the role of the hippocampus in spatial orientation in rats. This shared interest laid the foundation for their collaborative work, which would eventually lead to the discovery of grid cells.
In 2005, May-Britt and Edvard made a significant breakthrough in neuroscience with the discovery of grid cells. These cells, located close to the hippocampus in the brain’s center, fire signals periodically and play…
