RefNo | EC/2002/44 |
Level | Item |
Title | Andersen, Per Oskar: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
Citation | Per Andersen is distinguished for his pioneering studies of synaptic integration in the mammalian brain. His discovery, with Eccles, that basket cells mediate recurrent inhibition in the hippocampus and cerebellum identified a basic component of the brain's neural circuitry. He developed the technique of field potential analysis into an indispensable tool for the study of synaptic function in the hippocampus, and introduced the transverse hippocampal slice into neurophysiology, a preparation which has had a profound impact on functional studies of cortical microcircuitry. Using these techniques, he and his students have, over the past three decades, made fundamental contributions to the study of neural function in the hippocampus, including the elucidation of information flow through the excitatory trisynaptic loop of the hippocampus, the characterization of basic properties of long?term potentiation, a phenomenon which was discovered in his laboratory, and incisive studies on the role of the hippocampus in learning. |
AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8495 | Andersen; Per Oskar (1930 - 2020) | 1930 - 2020 |