John O'Keefe Quotes
I can't say when we will have a cure, but we now know through our findings how to ask the question of what is going wrong at the earliest stage of Alzheimer's.
O'Keefe, John. Press Conference. University College London, 6 Oct. 2014.
Commenting on the development of blood tests that can predict the onset of Alsheimer's Disease and its implication for having political process participants who will contract the disease. It is not only that Alzheimer’s patients die, but these who are still alive, for the most part, are unable to express themselves or partake of the normal political process.
John O'Keefe, FRS FMedSci is an American-British neuroscientist, psychologist and a professor at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour and the Research Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at University College London. He discovered place cells in the hippocampus, and that they show a specific kind of temporal coding in the form of theta phase precession. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014, together with May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser; he has received several other awards. He has worked at the University College London for his entire career, but also held a part-time chair at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology at the behest of his Norwegian collaborators, the Mosers.
