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Dr. Laurie Sykes Tottenham serves as Professor of Psychology and Assistant Dean at the University of Regina, Canada. With over two decades of academic experience since her 2003 debut publication, she maintains active research leadership while fulfilling significant administrative responsibilities within the Faculty of Arts.
Her educational foundation includes:
- BA (Honours) in Psychology, University of Regina
- PhD in Psychology, University of Saskatchewan
Dr. Sykes Tottenham's research program uniquely bridges neuropsychology and women's health. Early work established her expertise in laterality and pseudoneglect, examining spatial cognition through line bisection tasks and collision biases. Since 2016, her focus has intensified on reproductive endocrinology, particularly investigating how menopausal transitions and menstrual cycles impact cognition, mood, and health behaviors. This evolution reflects both scientific maturation and growing recognition of sex-specific health research imperatives. Her methodology integrates laboratory experiments with longitudinal hormone tracking, often collaborating with Dr. Gordon's team.
Analysis of her 15 most recent publications reveals a dominant trajectory toward women's health research, with 80% of 2019-2023 work centered on menopause transition neurocognition. This represents a strategic pivot from her foundational spatial cognition work while maintaining core neuropsychological frameworks. Her research demonstrates increasing clinical relevance, particularly in understanding hormonal contributions to depressive symptoms and cognitive changes during aging.
While no specific awards are documented in available sources, her sustained publication record in high-impact journals (Maturitas, Biology of Sex Differences, Psychology Medicine) indicates peer recognition. As Assistant Dean, she oversees academic operations while maintaining an active lab. Current supervision likely includes graduate students working on hormone-cognition projects, though specific trainee names aren't published. Her research group appears embedded within the Department of Psychology without a separately branded laboratory.
Dr. Sykes Tottenham's work provides critical evidence for clinical management of menopausal cognitive symptoms and informs road safety interventions through pseudoneglect research. Future directions likely involve expanding mechanistic studies of hormone-brain interactions and developing targeted interventions for women's cognitive health during transitional life stages.
