Peter C. Petersen
How the brain navigates in space and time: Roles and mechanisms of the hippocampus theta rhythms
Peter C. Petersen, postdoc at the Neuroscience Institute at New York University (NYU), has received a Fellowship from the Lundbeck Foundation totalling DKK 10 million.
With this grant, to be paid out over a period of five years, Peter C. Petersen can establish his own research group in the Neuroscience Department at the University of Copenhagen.
He specializes in theta rhythms, which are part of the electrical activity in the brain. These rhythms are involved in learning and memory – as well as in spatial navigation in a physical environment.
With this fellowship, Peter C. Petersen intends to conduct experiments in animals to study whether theta rhythms play a role in memory impairment associated with Alzheimer’s – and whether it is possible to mitigate this type of memory loss.
