Keep It in Mind

Understanding and improving your working memory.

Tracy P Alloway Ph.D.

How Stress Influences Decision-Making

Myth: Women make emotional decisions when they are stressed. Find out how a bucket of ice can shift your decision-making.

Feeling Sad? A Little Optimism Can Go a Long Way

Trouble seeing the positive? Changing one word can change your outlook.

Feeling Down? Try Pokémon Go

New research shows that Pokémon Go can lift your mood and memory.

Why Do Some Wear Masks When Others Don’t?

Risk is everywhere, especially during a pandemic. But how we perceive risk for COVID may be more critical than we realize.

Autism and Memory

Can you guess the memory superpowers of a child with autism?

Gifted or ADHD?

Why so many gifted students get mislabeled with attention issues.

3 Things to Help You Stick to Your Resolutions

Don't be the one in four that gives up on their New Year's resolutions after a week.

Is the Holiday Season Stressing You Out?

Get quick tips on how to cope with holiday stressors, like gift-giving.

The Classroom Mystery

ADHD Superpower

Turn learning needs into Superpowers. Find out the Memory Superpowers of a child with ADHD.

MEET SAMMY: DYSLEXIA SUPER POWERS

Books that  “give children with learning disabilities superpowers and voices to spread awareness"

What Would You Do to Remember a Forgotten Memory?

Would you hang upside down with brain probes like Captain Marvel?

Mandala from the coloring condition

Pick Up a Pencil: Coloring and Drawing Can Help Veterans

Can simple art activities offer benefits to veterans struggling with PTSD? New research suggests says yes.

Female Brain: Memory Over Time

Do women really remember more than men?

Why Your Child’s Lies May Be a Sign of Intelligence

Why your child’s lies may be a sign of intelligence - how working memory can boost lying in children

How to Make Your New Year's Resolutions Stick

Worried that your New Year's resolutions won't last? Here are three tips to make them stick.

Fidget Spinners — Toy or Therapy?

Are Fidget Spinners the new Therapy for ADHD and Stress?

Can Slacklining be Good for the Brain?

Can slacklining be good for the Brain?

Is Social Media Increasing ADHD?

Social Media and ADHD: How technology is changing the way we pay attention to information

Mirror, Mirror on the (Facebook) Wall

Is social media use creating narcissists?

When Is a Box More Than a Box?

When is a box more than a box? Gift giving, creativity and imagination

All I Want for Christmas Is a Pony

Is impulsive buying and shopping stressing you out this holiday season?

Outlook matters

Why paying attention to the snake on the ground can save your life, but harm your mental health.

What Is the Link Between ADHD and Working Memory?

What can working memory tell us about attention and hyperactivity in children with ADHD?

Down Syndrome & Working Memory

Strategies to support learning in students with Down Syndrome

Visual Working Memory in Children with Autism

Can poor visual working memory provide a clue to social difficulties experienced by children with autism?

Do Learning Styles Determine Grades?

Do Learning Styles Predict Grades?

Developmental Coordination Disorder & Working Memory

How is memory linked to poor balance, coordination and handwriting (Dyspraxia)?

Dyslexia and Working Memory

Are they related? And what's the link?

Why Sitting Is Bad For Learning If You Have ADHD

Don't wiggle - sit still! Why traditional classroom behavior may not be best for all kids.

Can't We Just Talk?

Can’t we just talk? Is social media replacing our ability to connect and empathize?

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