Kids with good executive function tend to grow up to be financially stable, healthy, productive adults. Past attempts 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 ...

Over the past year, I’ve received startlingly similar phone calls from families of college students: Their first- and second-year students across the United States are struggling with basic tasks and ...

Executive functioning skills are the mental processes that help us plan, focus, remember instructions, juggle multiple tasks, and manage time effectively. For kids and adults alike, executive ...

Imagine a movie character’s day going exactly as she planned: her organization systems make her space pristine, she’s on time or early for everything, her focus rivals an Olympian’s, and she adheres ...

Teens’ focus is interrupted, on average, every 90 seconds. Something as simple as an audible notification can draw focus away from a task. And when humans are distracted, it takes 23 minutes to get ...

Every human being lives with executive functioning strengths and challenges. These executive functioning skills—the domain of our prefrontal cortex—help us connect, prioritize and integrate cognitive ...

Executive functions play a critical role in the overall learning process as the all-encompassing self-regulatory system of cognition. Deficits in executive function impact all aspects of learning, ...

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