A new study looks at three brain attentional networks - alerting, orienting, and executive control – among alcohol-dependent (AD) individuals. Results indicate that AD individuals have particularly ...

Teenagers who are pathological liars also tend to struggle with executive function deficits, such as poor memory or impulse control, researchers have found. This means practitioners may be able to ...

Executive function — the term for critical mental skills like organization, focus, time management and emotional regulation — help all of us navigate our daily lives. People with ADHD are much more ...

Imagine your brain as an orchestra. The conductor (executive function) stands in front (or in the frontal lobe) to direct and organize their ensemble (other parts of the brain). Each musician relies ...

Executive dysfunction can occur with ADHD. Some ways you can manage it include keeping tasks visible, breaking up tasks, and setting alarms for time-based events. Executive dysfunction is a group of ...

Cooking a bowl of spaghetti after work might sound like a simple and effortless enough task, but for a person with executive dysfunction, it can be a minefield. There are the decisions, ('what am I ...

Executive function skills is a term we hear a lot these days—almost like a buzzword. But what does it mean, and how does it relate to ADHD? Executive function skills are brain-based abilities that ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. A total of 159 adults with ADHD were given flexible ...

DENVER — Deficits in executive function are linked to with development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and exacerbation of such symptoms over time, new research suggests. "To our ...