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Educating executive function [PDF]

WIREs Cognitive Science, 2016
Executive functions are thinking skills that assist with reasoning, planning, problem solving, and managing one's life. The brain areas that underlie these skills are interconnected with and influenced by activity in many different brain areas, some of which are associated with emotion and stress.
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Cognitive function in people with and without freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease [PDF]

, 2020
Freezing of gait (FOG) is common in people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) which is extremely debilitating. One hypothesis for the cause of FOG episodes is impaired cognitive control, however, this is still in debate in the literature. We aimed to assess a
Carlson-Kuhta, Patricia, Horak, Fay B., Mancini, Martina, Morris, Rosie, Nutt, John G., Peterson, Daniel S., Smulders, Katrijn   +6 more
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Executive function after exhaustive exercise [PDF]

, 2017
PurposeFindings concerning the effects of exhaustive exercise on cognitive function are somewhat equivocal. The purpose of this study was to identify physiological factors that determine executive function after exhaustive exercise.MethodsThirty-two ...
Mizuki Sudo, Ryo Aoyagi, Soichi Ando, Takaaki Komiyama, Toshiya Nagamatsu, Yasuki Higaki   +5 more
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Social re-orientation and brain development: An expanded and updated view. [PDF]

, 2016
Social development has been the focus of a great deal of neuroscience based research over the past decade. In this review, we focus on providing a framework for understanding how changes in facets of social development may correspond with changes in ...
Guyer, Amanda E, Jarcho, Johanna M, Nelson, Eric E   +2 more
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Executive function performance in middle-aged adults [PDF]

Dementia & Neuropsychologia, 2023
. Executive functions have been widely studied in the extreme of ages, but studies in middle-aged adults remain largely neglected. Education and gender are known to influence cognitive performance; however, their effect on executive function in middle ...
Namrata Sharma, Shweta Shenoy
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Investigating the impact of nicotine on executive functions using a novel virtual reality assessment [PDF]

, 2012
Aims Nicotine is known to enhance aspects of cognitive functioning in abstinent smokers but the effects on specific areas of executive functions, and in non-smokers are inconclusive.
Al-Adawi, Alcaro, Ashendorf, Benowitz, Dani, Dawkins, Di Matteo, Durrazzo, Edginton, Einstein, Ellis, Evans, Foulds, Friedman, Grant, Heffernan, Heishman, Heishman, Hendricks, Hindmarch, Janhunen, Jansari, Kleykamp, Kumari, Le Houezec, Leventhal, Levin, Miyake, Montgomery, Montgomery, Montgomery, Mumenthaler, Myers, Neumann, Nooyens, Nyberg, Phillips, Pickworth, Poltavski, Powell, Rezvani, Rhodes, Russell, Rusted, Rusted, Rusted, Sabia, Schachter   +47 more
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Indoxyl Sulfate Levels and Its Relation with Executive Function in Routine Hemodialysis Patients

Global Medical & Health Communication, 2023
Executive function is a crucial cognitive domain that can be adversely affected by various toxic substances, including the uremic toxin indoxyl sulfate.
Yuliarni Syafrita, Restu Susanti, Syarif Indra, Harnavi Harun   +3 more
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Habitual physical activity (HPA) as a factor in sustained executive function in Alzheimer-type dementia: a cohort study [PDF]

, 2014
Evidence from studies on healthy older adults and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) populations suggests that physical activity interventions have a positive effect on executive function. In this study, we consider whether HPA is positively associated with
Alexopoulos, Angevaren, Army Individual Test Battery, Binetti, Bingham, Bixby, Boyle, Bruce, Burns, Burns, Cade, Caspersen, Clifford, Colcombe, Collette, Cummings, Farina, Folstein, Gates, Glosser, Harada, Hillman, Honea, Jennifer Rusted, Kramer, Lezak, Lubben, Lubben, Mioshi, Miyake, Naji Tabet, Nicolas Farina, Nykänen, Pate, Pivarnik, Plasqui, Prince, Rantanen, Razani, Robertson, Ruiz-López, Rusted, Ruthirakuhan, Sattler, Schinka, Schinka, Sgaramella, Smiley-Oyen, Smith, Spreen, Storandt, Strauss, Swanberg, Trichopoulou, Tucker, Van der Bij, Vidoni, Washburn, Washburn, Washburn, Wecshler, Wilson, Winchester, Yasunaga, Yu   +64 more
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Training Executive Functions to Improve Academic Achievement: Tackling Avenues to Far Transfer

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
The aim of training executive functions is usually to improve the ability to attain real-life goals such as academic achievement, that is, far transfer.
Catherine Gunzenhauser, Matthias Nückles   +1 more
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Effects of a Cognitive-Functional Intervention Method on Improving Executive Function and Self-Directed Learning in School-Aged Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Single-Subject Design Study

Occupational Therapy International, 2020
Background. School-aged children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) face many difficulties with self-directed learning because of their poor executive function.
Mi Ji Kim, Hae Yean Park, Eun-Young Yoo, Jung-Ran Kim   +3 more
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