Good news! Official landing page for our Behavioural Brain Research special issue on Ultrasonic Communication in Rodents is available: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/… Deadline: 31 July 2025 We look forward to your submissions and to learn about your work on ultrasonic vocalizations.

Iedereen kent het gevoel van #angst, maar wat is het nu echt? Wat gebeurt er in je hoofd en lichaam als je bang bent? Wat denk je, voel je, en doe je? Ontdek ‘wetenschappelijk verantwoord’ #concert op 14 & 15 december in Aula Vesalius te #Leuven. tickets.alumniarenbergorkest.be/nl/tickets/

Serotonin and BEYOND study on the effects of communal nesting on maternal affiliation deficits caused by Tph2 deficiency is now published Molecular Autism: rdcu.be/d1T07 Thanks to all collaborators Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/ Max Delbrück Center/ Radboudumc. Congrats, Tianhua Wang Philipps-Universität!

Exciting news! Our first #animalresearch #communication webinar is happening for free on January 28 at 12 PM CET online. Save the date and join us to explore effective science communication strategies! Instructions for preregistration will follow... COST #EARA

End-of-year dinner for Wöhr lab! 🎄 Time to discuss important matters, like..when will we get a new coffee machine?!

She did it! 🥳 (Of course she did!). Very proud of you, Alba López-Moraga (albalm.bsky.social), PhD! Again a pleasure to supervise such an excellent young researcher together with Tom Beckers ☺️.

What a great start of 2025! Great talks, fruitful scientific discussions, and a lot of fun during our visit of the Bo Zhang Peking University. Our joint global PhD student Elis Skorobogatov and all other team members from KU Leuven and Philipps-Universität very much enjoyed the trip to Shenzhen, China.

Our University KU Leuven turns 600!! (For once, I'll continue in Dutch, sorry!) Kom dit weekend mee vieren in Stad Leuven! Je vindt alle info - ook over mijn kinderlezing die ik 4(!) keer geef - via kuleuven.be/600jaar/progra…. Tot dan! KU Leuven CLEP PPW_KULeuven Leuven Brain Institute

Dit weekend weer héél wat kinderhoofdjes gevuld over "bang zijn"! 😱🧠 Thanks to all the children (and their parents) for taking 600 s to come and listen to one of my lectures PPW_KULeuven or in the central KU Leuven kids hub!!! 🙏🏻 Leuven Brain Institute

🚀 Congrats to Samuel Budniok for his paper in Neuropharmacology! 🎉 🐭💊 Oxytocin enhances social trust learning in mice, but surprisingly, both oxytocin & its antagonist block trust violation learning. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.neur… #Neuroscience #Oxytocin #SocialTrust

🎙️ Nieuwe #podcast: Je cursus of je leven! Wat is de kern van je #cursus? Prof. bram vervliet zoekt het uit in gesprekken met docenten psychologie. 🎧 Aflevering 1: Prof. Rudi D’Hooge over de plasticiteit van ons #brein🧠 👉Beluisteren en meer info: ppw.kuleuven.be/nieuws-en-agen…

📢 LBP is excited to announce a new lab member for WöhrLab! Welcome on board Sara Mejía Chávez!

🚨LBP is on #BlueSky! Join us there! bsky.app/profile/biopsy…

Very happy and grateful to be working in the WöhrLab!

📢 Paper alert! Laura Vercammen explored the role of dopaminergic system on active avoidance in rats 🐀. Check it out! 👇🏼

This friday on #KarakterCast, Boushra Dalile, PhD goes in conversation with Samuël Budniok from LBP KU Leuven as they discuss his latest work on the effects of the neuropeptide #oxytocin on #trust. Have a listen on our website: lnkd.in/drBM6_XA

Did you think that #oxytocin is merely the #lovehormone? Don't miss this episode of #KarakterCast as Samuël Budniok reveals its surprising and complex role in shaping #trust in just 10 minutes! 🧠

I am very excited to share our new paper on visual feedback from peripheral to (un-stimulated) foveal cortex: "Partial information transfer from peripheral visual streams to foveal visual streams may be mediated through local primary visual circuits." A 🧵👇 (link below)

Incredibly honored! Thank you so much for this recognition EBBStweets - highlight of my year so far!😇

Theresa Kisko, PhD & Fabio Sousa had such a great visit to the IGBMC in Strasbourg to work hard on our exciting collaboration using the Live Rat Tracker with Dr Elodie Ey! The trip was supported by FWO/TOURNESOL mobility grant awarded to Dr Elodie Ey and Dr Theresa Kisko.