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The Brain Prize 2011: From Microcircuit Organization to Constellations of Brain Rhythms
1Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-1280, USA. isoltesz@uci.edu
Abstract:
The Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation awarded the inaugural Brain Prize 2011 to Péter Somogyi, Tamás Freund and György Buzsáki 'for their wide-ranging, technically and conceptually brilliant research on the functional organization of neuronal circuits in the cerebral cortex, especially in the hippocampus, a region that is crucial for certain forms of memory'. The present article highlights key findings and major conceptual contributions by these three scientists that were recognized by the award.
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