ノーベル賞月報６月号(Discoveries in the Human Brain)

人間の脳。Descubrimientos en el cerebro humano.

Monthly JUNE 2018

Brain power. By Allan Ajifo, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Discoveries in the human brain Great pioneers of brain research Science is only just beginning to understand the brain's remarkable form of 'software' - the way it works as a whole to enable us to live and think - but an amazing series of Nobel Prize-awarded scientific breakthroughs have given us insight into its 'hardware'.    Read a brief story of Nobel Laureates awarded for discoveries in the human nervous system

Arvid Carlsson. Understanding our minds The 2000 Medicine Prize rewarded three scientists who deciphered the signalling pathways that regulate some of the brain's most important functions. One of them, Arvid Carlsson, found a way to treat Parkinson's disease.    Watch an interview with Arvid Carlsson

Discovered the brain's GPS John O'Keefe, 2014 Medicine Laureate, was fascinated by the problem of how the brain controls behaviour. Here he talks about his early days in neuroscience and how he discovered the brain's 'place cells' that build up an inner map of the environment.    Listen to John O'Keefe John O'Keefe.

Torsten Wiesel. Decoding messages from the eye Medicine Laureates David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel studied the visual process and disclosed the most well-guarded secret of the brain: the way brain cells decode messages from the eyes.    Torsten Wiesel explains his research

"Get your sleep. Your brain will thank you" Oliver Smithies received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007 for his work related to principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by using embryonic stem cells. Here, he shares some wise thoughts.    Watch Oliver Smithies Oliver Smithies.

Monthly Quiz Literature Laureates and languages The left side of the brain is normally specialised in taking care of analytical and verbal tasks. How many languages do you think are represented among the 114 Nobel Laureates in Literature? Click to submit your answer. 15 languages 25 languages 35 languages

Arvid Carlsson.

基本スペイン語☞ノーベル賞受賞者 ganadores del Premio Nobel