Publications

[a 100 year old thesis. amanuensis hans christian geelmuyden].	hans christian geelmuyden (1861-1945) was amanuensis (assistant professor) at the institute of physiology, university of oslo from 1889 to 1931. in 1897 he was awarded the degree "doctor of medicine" for his thesis "om aceton som stofvexelprodukt" (on acetone as a metabolic product). the nobel laureate feodor lynen referred to this thesis, which was also published in german, stating that geelmuyden was the first to establish that ketone bodies are formed from fatty acids. geelmuyden also establi ...	1997	9456588
the discovery of long-term potentiation.	this paper describes circumstances around the discovery of long-term potentiation (ltp). in 1966, i had just begun independent work for the degree of dr medicinae (phd) in per andersen's laboratory in oslo after an eighteen-month apprenticeship with him. studying the effects of activating the perforant path to dentate granule cells in the hippocampus of anaesthetized rabbits, i observed that brief trains of stimuli resulted in increased efficiency of transmission at the perforant path-granule ce ...	2003	12740104