Executive function is a set of skills that help you get things done. These skills are controlled by an area of your brain called the frontal lobe, and they help you do things such as manage your ...

Overwork can lead to neuroadaptive changes that impair cognitive and emotional health. Working long hours may actually change the structure of your brain, according to new research published in ...

The difference between the brain's predicted age and actual chronological age, called a brain age gap, may influence the ...

While we may use descriptors like “messy” or “lazy,” our challenges viewed through an executive function perspective may reveal themselves to simply be areas in which we need strategies ...

It may even cause changes in the brain, according to a new report published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Researchers from Korea found that people who regularly work long hours had ...

We all struggle with executive function sometimes ... parts of the brain—from the reward circuits to the parietal cortex, which has to do with attention, to sensorimotor areas that control ...

However, different parts of their brain were functioning in different ways to ... hard to compensate for reduced response in those areas. Meanwhile, when listening to new musical sequences ...