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, ...

Executive function (EF) coaching helps to improve skills housed in the brain's prefrontal cortex related to decision-making, long-term planning, impulse control and our ability to take action. As an ...

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 ...

I hold my planner like a life book. It's dazzled with color-coded words, stickers, notes, symbols, and doodles. One might think it's all for fun. In truth, it's all quite necessary. It's my executive ...

Vulnerability causes people to do some interesting things. For preteens, it often manifests into cutthroat judgment and meanness as defense mechanisms. If you look stupid, then I won’t. Couple that ...

Conditions like A.D.H.D. and autism can make starting and completing tasks feel impossible, but experts say there are workarounds. By Christina Caron The pomodoro technique. Power poses. Planners.

Rachel Fairbank is a freelance science writer based in Texas. When she is not writing, she can be found spending time with her family, or at her local boxing gym. Even if you’ve never heard the term ...

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 ...

Developmental stuttering is a speech disorder characterized by the repetition, prolongation, and blocking of speech sounds. It has been suggested that a decline in executive function is a background ...

As people, we rely on our mental capabilities and cognitive skills to do things like regulate emotions and navigate our day-to-day lives. Planning and organization, completing tasks, time management, ...