Nobel Prize Stories by High School Students- Dr. John O’Keefe -The Brain’s Positioning System -Medicine or Physiology 2014.
(This article is a summary of the full-length article Authored by Ms. Sahana Sundar, Jericho, USA. It’s one of the 14 Chapters written by high school students and published in the PATH TO NOBEL book).
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Ms. Sahana Sundar, an eighth grader at Jericho Middle School, New York, who is involved in various community and educational activities. She is a President’s Volunteer Service Gold Award recipient, a member of her school badminton team, a Girl Scout, a chess enthusiast, and an active community volunteer. She is also the New York Chapter Leader of the Girls Computing League and App Dev League, organizations that promote computer science in underrepresented communities.
The chapter then delves into the life and work of Dr. John O’Keefe, a neuroscientist and psychologist, who, along with his Nobel co-laureates, Professors Edvard and May-Britt Moser, conducted pioneering research on our built-in positioning system that enables us to orient ourselves in space and move around. This system is facilitated by “place cells” and “grid cells” in the hippocampus of the brain.
