Michael E. Hasselmo

Hasselmo has contributed copiously, and at the highest level, to cross-disciplinary experimental and theoretical neuroscience. Moreover, he has achieved an extraordinary synergy of converging evidence from these approaches across wide range of topics spanning from biophysical models and evidence of persistent activity in memory to contributions to understanding Alzheimer's disease. He is best and most widely known for his original and highly influential combined models and experiments on the role of acetylcholine in switching between circuit dynamics for encoding and retrieval of memories and on the role of oscillations in creating grid-cell responses in the entorhinal cortex. Current research in his laboratory addresses the coding of space and time in cortical circuits for the representation of items and events in episodic memory.