2016

Long-Term Potentiation

The cellular and molecular basis of LTP and its role in learning. The Brain Prize for 2016 was awarded to Timothy Bliss, Graham Collingridge and Richard Morris for 'their ground-breaking research on the cellular and molecular basis of Long-Term Potentiation and the demonstration that this form of synaptic plasticity underpins spatial memory and learning.'

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Brain Prize Films

The Brain Prize Winners 2016

Tim Bliss

Tim Bliss

Graham Collingridge

Graham Collingridge

Richard Morris

Richard Morris

2016 Portrait film:

Richard Morris, Tim Bliss and Graham Collingridge describe their research into the mechanisms of learning and memory, focussing on long-term potentiation of hippocampal synapses and the central that the NMDA receptor plays in the process.