Liisa Ann Margaret Galea is a Canadian neuroscientist who is a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia.
[1] Her mother, an accountant, escaped the Iron Curtain during World War II, first to Sweden and eventually to Canada.
She moved to the University of Western Ontario (UWO) for her doctoral studies, where she investigated developmental and hormonal aspects of spatial learning.
[6] Galea's significant body of work has added to our knowledge of how circulating hormones and life events such as pregnancy and aging impact cognition.
[8][9] In particular, Galea is interested in the neural consequences of stress, the impacts of pregnancy and mothering on memory,[10][11] as well as the development of preclinical models for postpartum depression.