title: The Brain Prize 2011: From Microcircuit Organization to Constellations of Brain Rhythms.
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.
authors.affiliation: Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-1280, USA. isoltesz@uci.edu
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Soltesz
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001363:Awards and Prizes; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000266:history; D011173:Portraits as Topic