Those who study the brain or treat patients (or both) talk a lot about executive functioning, often in the negative. We refer to “poor executive functioning,” “executive dysfunction,” “frontal lobe ...

Prior research has demonstrated that environmental unpredictability is associated with poor social functioning, though the mechanisms that underlie this association are largely unknown. The present ...

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, ...

Cognitive control encompasses the ensemble of neural and cognitive processes that steer thoughts and actions in line with internally maintained objectives. It underpins executive functions such as ...

A study in ACR Open Rheumatology found that while more than one-third of patients ages 10 to 17 years with childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE) reported impaired executive function (EF) ...