Our current brain structures have been with us for at least 35,000 years. But today’s work environment, filled with the pinging, whooshing, grabbing, greedy solicitations of digital media, is unlike ...

Your working memory, cognitive flexibility, and self-regulation are core components of executive function (EF), an interrelated set of mental skills that lay the foundation for advanced cognitive ...

I hold my planner like a life book. It's dazzled with color-coded words, stickers, notes, symbols, and doodles. One might think it's all for fun. In truth, it's all quite necessary. It's my executive ...

Tile compiled research to take a closer look at the causes of executive dysfunction and how people dealing with it can manage its effects. - Roman Samborskyi // Shutterstock Tile compiled research to ...

An ER doctor and marriage and family therapist shares her experiences with the ebb and flow of executive function capacity.

Executive functions encompass a suite of higher-order cognitive processes—including planning, working memory, mental flexibility and inhibitory control—that enable goal-directed behaviour. Impairments ...

Task initiation is a crucial aspect of executive function that impacts your ability to start projects and meet deadlines. It involves overcoming inertia (doing nothing) and transitioning from ...

More people are talking about executive dysfunction—but what exactly is it? Collage with hands holding arrows in many directions with brain illustration on blue background. Organizing thoughts, ...