Have you ever wondered how the brain identifies a location
and correlates it with our further destinations or for that instance for
telling route to someone who seeks help in going from one location to another
location? What it implies is that our brain has a full-fledged GPS (global
positioning system) in existence for ages, maybe since the evolution of
mankind, or probably much before that. This year’s Nobel Prize in
Physiology/ Medicine has gone to three such scientists who have discovered
the global positioning system of the brain.
Professor John O’Keefe who is a Neuroscientist at the
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience – UCL – UK is the recipient of this year’s
Nobel Prize for Medicine/ Physiology. He also heads the Department of Anatomy
in University College London, the United Kingdom. The two other recipients of
this award are May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser. Professor John O’Keefe is also
recipient of prestigion Grawemeyer Award and Gruber Prize in Neuroscience,
earlier in his carrier, prior to this. The three scientists have worked out on
how brain functions while locating its current coordinates and further
navigates to various geographic locations.
