Lynn Nadel

Lynn Nadel ( born November 12, 1942) is an American neuroscientist who is known for fundamental contributions to the role of the hippocampus in spatial orientation and memory. He is Regents Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona.

Needle received in 1963 his bachelor's degree in biology in 1965 and his master's degree in psychology at McGill University, where he became in 1967 a Ph.D. in Physiological Psychology. His dissertation was titled Behavioral Effects of Dorsal and Ventral Hippocampal Lesions in the Rat. There his collaboration began with John O'Keefe on the function of the hippocampus and its role in neuronal mapping and memory, which led to the influential book The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map 1978. 1969/70 he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Physiology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and University College London, where he studied until 1976 in the MRC Cerebral Functions Research Group. 1975/76 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Bergen, 1976/77 at the University of California, San Diego, 1977-1979 Associate Professor at Dalhousie University. 1980 to 1985 he conducted research at the University of California, Irvine (Associate Research Psychologist ). Since 1985 he has been at the University of Arizona, where he directs the program on Cognitive and Brain Sciences in the Faculty of Psychology.

After needle of the hippocampus plays not only in the location information and in spatial memory, but generally when episodic memory is key. It also examines malfunction of the hippocampus in Down's syndrome, the effects of stress on the function of the hippocampus and the role of sleep in learning.

In 2006 he received the Grawemeyer prize in psychology with John O'Keefe.

Writings

• Publisher The Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Macmillan 2003
• With John O'Keefe: The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map, Oxford University Press, 1978
• Chief editor of the scientific journal, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science