Task initiation is a crucial aspect of executive function that impacts your ability to start projects and meet deadlines. It ...

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 has become a buzzphrase and hot topic for professionals working with adolescents and young adults. There’s been a lot of good research in the field of late, and increasingly, I ...

Now that the excitement, travel, schedule changes, and extra stimulation of winter holidays are over and the routine has ...

If you have executive dysfunction (also called executive function disorder), you may experience difficulty in organizing ...

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 ...

Adherence to 8-week square-stepping exercise training among patients with Parkinson disease was associated with significant improvement of executive functioning, as well as cognitive functioning for ...

Aaron Buss received funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Alexis McCraw does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from ...

Researchers from Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology found that educated children perform better on psychological tests measuring executive function abilities, challenging the accuracy ...