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 ...

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 ...

A new study shows that autism symptom severity, rather than a formal diagnosis, aligns with shared brain-connectivity patterns across children diagnosed with autism or ADHD.

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 ...

https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjpsyc.134.1.0061 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/amerjpsyc.134.1.0061 Copy URL The main objective of the present study was to ...

This post is part one of a series. Attention is a multifaceted process that manages the mental controls needed for school or work. Filtering incoming information to determine its importance (saliency) ...

Difficulties in math and science learning in the early grades can have lasting consequences for students who have impairments in executive functions, according to a new report from Penn State ...

Have you ever had a student who suffers from something called “an executive function deficit?” In other words, a student who struggles to plan, organize, remember things, prioritize, pay attention and ...

Soon after her son started middle school, Kay Nash, head of talent at a Washington, D.C., law firm, started worrying about his organizational skills and study habits. He’d been diagnosed with ADHD and ...

Executive function describes a set of cognitive processes and mental skills that help an individual plan, monitor, and successfully execute their goals. The “executive functions,” as they’re known, ...