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Executive functioning in wild guppies: investigating the impact of a pharmaceutical pollutant [PDF]

open access: yesAnimal Cognition
The executive functions are a suite of cognitive-control processes that enable goal-directed behaviour. Executive functioning is vital in allowing animals to adapt their behaviour to changing environmental conditions, which is a key determinant of the ...
Eleanor R. Moore   +4 more
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Lifetime stressor exposure, executive functioning, and internalizing symptoms during emerging adulthood [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Reports
Internalizing symptoms such as depression and anxiety rise dramatically during emerging adulthood. Although both childhood and adulthood adversity are associated with internalizing symptoms during this period, the underlying transdiagnostic processes ...
Liam Wright   +4 more
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Executive functioning and spoken language skills in young children with hearing aids and cochlear implants: Longitudinal findings

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH) children who use auditory-oral communication display considerable variability in spoken language and executive functioning outcomes.
Izabela A. Jamsek   +5 more
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Advancing the Measurement of Executive Functioning in Pediatric Chronic Pain

open access: yesChildren, 2021
Youth with chronic pain often report executive functioning difficulties, many of which have been linked to poor treatment adherence and health-related quality of life in adults with chronic pain, as well as in other pediatric chronic health populations ...
Emily A. Beckmann   +1 more
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Social closeness and cognitive functioning increase feelings of hope for individuals in inpatient treatment

open access: yesPsychiatry Research Communications, 2021
Hope is important in recovery during inpatient treatment. Prior research suggests social closeness and executive functioning are important in increasing hope.
Tovah Cowan   +3 more
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The association between depression symptoms and reduced executive functioning is primarily linked by fatigue

open access: yesPsychiatry Research Communications, 2023
Depression is associated with reduced executive functioning. Still, we lack a more detailed understanding of the factors explaining this association. Addressing several limitations in the previous literature, we examine whether poor executive functioning
Brage Kraft   +6 more
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Associations between executive functioning, challenging behavior, and quality of life in children and adolescents with and without neurodevelopmental conditions

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
The present study sought to clarify the impact of executive and social functioning on challenging behavior and the downstream influence of challenging behavior on quality of life and functioning in a large transdiagnostic sample.
Thomas W. Frazier   +6 more
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Decision making and its correlates in recurrent depressive disorder

open access: yesIndian Journal of Psychiatry, 2023
Objective: Decision-making (DM) is simply choosing among alternatives or defining one's course of action. A depressed individual does not perceive himself as a decision-maker as ruminations reinforce dysfunctional metacognitive beliefs and poor executive
Sandeep Singh   +2 more
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EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING IN SCHIZOPHRENIA

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2013
The executive function (EF) is a set of abilities, which allows us to invoke voluntary control of our behavioral responses. These functions enable human beings to develop and carry out plans, make up analogies, obey social rules, solve problems, adapt to
Gricel eOrellana   +5 more
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Examining the Acute Effects of Classroom-Based Physical Activity Breaks on Executive Functioning in 11- to 14-Year-Old Children: Single and Additive Moderation Effects of Physical Fitness

open access: yesFrontiers in Pediatrics, 2021
Objective: Research supports the efficacy of acute, classroom-based, physical activity breaks on executive functioning in children. However, research pertaining to the effect of physical fitness on the acute physical activity—executive functioning ...
Jeffrey D. Graham   +3 more
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