COLORADO, USA — It's National ADHD Awareness Month, and parents and teachers who have children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or autism spectrum disorder have a new way to help kids who ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Encouraging multilingualism at home could benefit kids with autism spectrum disorders, the researchers conclude, and could even ...

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 ...

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 ...

Data sources Cochrane Central, PsycINFO, Embase, Medline and CINAHL. Eligibility criteria Peer-reviewed, randomised controlled trials, in English (1990–present), which examined the effects of exercise ...

A new study found that 24-month-old children who spent less than 60 minutes looking at screens each day and those who engaged in at least 60 minutes of daily physical activity had better executive ...

Why do some entrepreneurs navigate uncertainty with ease while others struggle? The answer might lie in how their brain's executive function operates. Working with hundreds of business founders, I've ...

The name of this Psychology Today blog is “Screen Play," which might lead one to believe that it’s about movies and television. But the focus is more on the screens kids are using today—their cell ...