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 ...

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, ...

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 ...