Motoharu Yoshida

Research Group Leader of Cognitive Neurophysiology at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)

The hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, which are part of the medial temporal lobe (MTL), support memory and spatial navigation functions.
Our research focuses on neural computation underlying cognitive functions of the MTL, combining in vitro and in vivo electrophysiological recordings with computational simulations. Since the MTL is crucially involved in Alzheimer’s disease and temporal lobe epilepsy, studying neural computation in the MTL is central not only to understanding of cognitive functions and its engineering applications, but also to developing treatments for dementia and epilepsy.

Keywords:  Neural computation – neurophysiology – memory – spatial
navigation – electrophysiology

Location: DZNE

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