Terje Lømo

Terje Lømo (born 3 January 1935) is a Norwegian physiologist who specialized in neuroscience. He was born in Ålesund to dentist Leif Lømo and Ingeborg Rebekka Helseth.^[1]

Terje Lømo
Born	(1935-01-03) 3 January 1935 (age 90) Ålesund, Norway
Occupation	Physiologist
Awards	Order of St. Olav

Lømo in 1966, while beginning his PhD, worked in Per Oskar Andersen's lab in the Department of Physiology in Oslo. This was part of an apprenticeship dealing with hippocampal studies. By 1968, Timothy Bliss had joined Lømo in Andersen's laboratory for studies in memory mechanisms within the hippocampus.^[2] Lømo is known for his studies on synapses, in particular the synaptic plasticity. His discovery of the long-term potentiation, along with fellow researcher Tim Bliss, is regarded as a fundamental work in neurophysiology.^[1][3] He was awarded the Medical prize of Anders Jahre [no] in 2003,^[1] and was decorated Commander of the Order of St. Olav in 2009.^[4] He is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.^[5]