Teenagers who are pathological liars also tend to struggle with executive function deficits, such as poor memory or impulse control, researchers have found. This means practitioners may be able to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I pride myself on the fact that my 7-year-old son, like me, has always been a list-maker. “Overwhelmed by too many playtime ...

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 ...

Two dynamics are fundamentally reshaping the structure and functioning of the American government. The first, which is quite well known, is Congress’s decline. The second, perhaps somewhat less ...

Unfortunately for many adults, when we hear people talking about ADHD, we think of a little kid at school who can’t sit still and is bouncing around in his seat. But, that’s not really what ADHD is ...

Over the past two decades, as an academic advisor, I've worked with thousands of middle school, high school and college students. I've seen what separates those who struggle from those who thrive.

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 ...

College is often portrayed as a time of newfound independence – a chance for young adults to “spread their wings and fly.” But what happens when students arrive on campus unprepared to manage their ...

An experimental study conducted in Brazil found that a game-based cognitive training program called Cucca Curiosa improved executive functioning and mathematics performance in children aged 7 to 10 ...

Executive function—top-down processes by which the human mind controls behavior, regulating thoughts and actions—have long been studied using a standard set of tools, with these assessments being ...