How successfully do you pursue goals and plans? Executive functions are cognitive skills—including working memory, self-awareness, and emotional regulation—that help individuals successfully set and ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Mental Wellness for Adolescents and Adults. Executive functioning skills are your child’s mental control center, ...

Objective To evaluate systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) on the effects of exercise on general cognition, memory and executive function across all populations and ages. Methods ...

Mental imagery after stroke correlated with cognitive and executive performance during early rehabilitation, especially visuo ...

Speech rate and word-finding difficulties, including pausing and use of fillers such as “um” and “uh,” were associated with changes in executive function across the adult lifespan in a new study. Jed ...

Oveporexton, a novel first-in-class OX2R-selective agonist, shows promise for improving memory, attention, and executive function in individuals with narcolepsy type 1.