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Nobel Prize for medicine goes to discoverers of brain’s 'inner GPS'

2014-10-06 22 Dailymotion

You'd be giddy, too, if you just won a Nobel prize…<br/> <br />Like Norwegian scientist May-Britt Moser.<br/> <br />She was jointly awarded this year's Nobel prize for medicine along with her husband, and a British-American scientist.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Norwegian) NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATE, MAY-BRITT MOSER, SAYING:<br/> <br />"Everyone is here to celebrate with us today. It is absolutely fantastic!"<br/> <br />The prestigious annual award was given for their discovery, as a team, of the brain's internal positioning system.<br/> <br />They found so-called "grid cells" that are constantly working to create a map of the outside world -- a GPS of our minds -- and which give clues to how strokes and Alzheimer's affect the brain.<br/> <br />Her husband, Edvard Moser, heard the news after getting off of an airplane in Germany.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) NORWEGIAN PSYCHOLOGIST AND NEUROSCIENTIST AND WINNER OF THE 2014 NOBEL PRIZE FOR MEDICINE, EDVARD MOSER, SAYING:<br/> <br />"Of course, I am full of gratitude. It's a great moment.

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