Our current brain structures have been with us for at least 35,000 years. But today’s work environment, filled with the pinging, whooshing, grabbing, greedy solicitations of digital media, is unlike ...

Executive functions encompass a suite of higher-order cognitive processes—including planning, working memory, mental flexibility and inhibitory control—that enable goal-directed behaviour. Impairments ...

Executive function describes a set of cognitive processes and mental skills that help an individual plan, monitor, and successfully execute their goals. The “executive functions,” as they’re known, ...