We believe that the entorhinal cortex might serve a dual purpose, acting both as an odometer to track distance and as a clock to track elapsed time, saidJames Heys, PhD,assistant professor in neurobiology and the senior author on the study.
These are the first areas of the brain to be affected by neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimers. We are interested in exploring whether complex timing behavior tasks could be a useful way to detect the early onset of Alzheimers disease. James Heys