Comments for Tracy Packiam Alloway, PhD

Comment on Pregnancy Brain and Working Memory by Derek Pugh

Derek Pugh — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:43:16 +0000

Tracy, great stuff. My wife was pregnant twice. The first time her hippocampus must have been the size of a pea (don’t tell her I told you). The second she took fish oil capsules and pregnancy didn’t seem so obvious - perhaps the omega 3s altered the efficiency of her brain’s membranes and the effect of pregnancy was counteracted in some way? Or perhaps she (or I) was just lucky.
Anyway, I work in brain compatible education and will be presenting at etc2011 in KK with you. I plan to be at all your workshops. Would welcome an email from you…

Comment on ADHD or Poor Working Memory? by Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:06:14 +0000

Hi.

As some of us know, the Biology, Environment and Psychology of each individual, seems to generally interact in a very complex way. Skilled teachers appriciate these forces yet as a learning student I find few are able to support my particular learning capabilities…

My university openly states “learning is the students resonsibility” which obviously contridicts the meaning of the sentence.

Do you have any ideas on how to bring any beneficial change to a teaching organisation like a university to support learning adult students with poor working memory or other mentally unfavourable traits in a class room setting?

Thank you for your time.

Regards,

Steve

Comment on Working Memory in Autistic Spectrum Disorder by atiqah

atiqah — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:02:06 +0000

How about spatial working memory in autism??

in my country, we not have the assessment battery for working memory.. i hope you can give me the other way to assess it and has the reability and validity.

Thank you

Comment on Pregnancy Brain and Working Memory by Soko Cisneroz

Soko Cisneroz — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:47:52 +0000

What an outstanding article! It thoroughly justifies the completely random decisions I made throughout both of my pregnancies. Unfortunately, whenever I claimed it was the baby trying to make itself more intelligent by depleting my brainpower, I received no sympathy whatsoever! Now, if you could explain why my brain never quite returned to its former brilliance following pregnancy, I would be eternally grateful.

Comment on Pregnancy Brain and Working Memory by Twitter Trackbacks for Pregnancy Brain and Working Memory [tracyalloway.com] on Topsy.com

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:36:27 +0000

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Comment on Gifted and ADHD: What do they have in common? by medical assistant

medical assistant — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:14:25 +0000

found your site on del.icio.us today and really liked it.. i bookmarked it and will be back to check it out some more later

Comment on Drive a taxi to improve your visual-spatial memory by Autism Symptoms

Autism Symptoms — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:13:18 +0000

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Comment on Drive a taxi to improve your visual-spatial memory by Twitter Trackbacks for Drive a taxi to improve your visual-spatial memory [tracyalloway.com] on Topsy.com

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:02:49 +0000

[...] Drive a taxi to improve your visual-spatial memory tracyalloway.com/index.php/working-memory/drive-a-taxi-to-improve-your-visual-spatial-memory/ – view page – cached A group of psychologists in London* were interested in the brains of taxi drivers. In particular, they wanted to know whether their visual-spatial memory was better than the rest of us. Tweets about this link Topsy.Data.Twitter.User['carolutay'] = {”photo”:”http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/120264229/head_shot_carol_twitter_smaller_normal.jpg”,”url”:”http://twitter.com/carolutay”,”nick”:”carolutay”}; carolutay: “RT @MyWorkingMemory: Drive a taxi to improve your visual-spatial memory http://bit.ly/dyrtzM ” 5 minutes ago retweet Topsy.Data.Twitter.User['myworkingmemory'] = {”photo”:”http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/144301860/Trafalgar_Square_normal.jpg”,”url”:”http://twitter.com/myworkingmemory”,”nick”:”myworkingmemory”}; myworkingmemoryInfluential: “Drive a taxi to improve your visual-spatial memory http://bit.ly/dyrtzM ” 9 hours ago retweet Filter tweets [...]

Comment on Alzheimers and Memory Loss by Natalie

Natalie — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:49:56 +0000

Hi Tracy, this is really interesting. Would you say the same theory applies for the popular “blogging” trend now? Typically, it works very much in the same way as writing a diary. To top that, we have all these current social networking features (i.e.: twitter, facebook) that enables and encourages us to expand our communication & language skills. I think this is a really interesting study and will actually gain more insights if another study is done using the current trends in blogging styles, etc.

Comment on Gifted and ADHD: What do they have in common? by Mental Disorders 101

Mental Disorders 101 — Wed, 12 May 2010 07:50:24 +0000

Gifted and ADHD: What do they have in common?…

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