Neuropsychology Interest Group

05/10/2025

05/10/2025

05/10/2025

Remembering Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, who over 60 years ago pioneered chimpanzee behavioral studies. In the last six decades, her research has transformed scientific perceptions of the relationship between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. Today we mourn her loss and celebrate her legacy. https://ow.ly/fBHO50X5zN4

05/10/2025

05/10/2025

"The greatest danger to our future is apathy." — Jane Goodall

Thank you Jane Goodall! 🙏

05/10/2025

Motherhood Flips Brain Switch That Triggers Aggression

Researchers have uncovered a brain circuit that explains why female mice, typically non-aggressive, can suddenly display maternal aggression after giving birth.

The same neurons that drive aggression in males lie dormant in females until pregnancy and maternal hormones activate them.

Silencing these neurons stopped the mothers from defending their pups, while oxytocin and prolactin strongly triggered the circuit.

The findings reveal how the brain can temporarily unlock new behaviors critical for survival.

05/10/2025

TODAY is International Day of Peace

“On this International Day of Peace,
let us promise to make peace
not just a priority, but a passion.
Let us pledge to do more, wherever we are
in whatever way we can, to make every day
a day of peace.”
~Ban Ki-moon



Artist: Sliman Mansour, Palestine
Source: Peintures
Charter for Compassion

05/10/2025

As the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla - the largest initiative of its kind - is expected to enter a high-risk zone in the Mediterranean where Israeli forces may attempt to intercept it as they did before.

The flotilla, carrying urgently needed food, medicine, and humanitarian supplies, set sail after nearly two years of Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza and 18 years of an illegal blockade that has left Palestinians in Gaza deliberately starved and deprived of essentials, as part of Israel's ongoing unlawful occupation of the Palestinian territory.

The persistent inaction of states in the face of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has forced activists from across the world to take peaceful measures to break the siege.

States have a responsibility to guarantee the flotilla’s safe passage. They must step up pressure to protect the flotilla and demand an end of Israel's genocide, and of its unlawful blockade once and for all.

25/12/2023

Shout out to my newest followers! Excited to have you onboard! Tulip Tulip, Ann Chidera Okafor