John O'Keefe
John O'Keefe
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth18 November 1939
CountryUnited States of America
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Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of national and other biases in the selection of the laureates.
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I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve.
brain curiosity early morning
I do what I do merrily out of curiosity because I want to know how the brain works. That will get me up early in the morning and keep me going all day long.
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It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that's attacked by Alzheimer's disease. So we can now use some of the basic understanding of this part of the brain to ask the simple question, 'What is going wrong with these special cells in the hippocampus at the very earliest stages?'
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What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.
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We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.