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How To Boost Executive Functioning Skills for Teens

...memory and focus continue to improve during the teen years, the core executive functions teens need help to develop are self-awareness and inhibition (self-control), in order to counterbalance their brain’s...

By Anubhuti Matta

How To Boost Executive Functioning Skills In Kids Aged 5 to 7

...build executive functioning skills for different age groups. This part will focus on activities to build executive functions in kindergarten and early primary kids, aged 5 to 7. Executive function...

By Anubhuti Matta

What Is Executive Functioning in Children?

Executive function — you’ve probably heard the phrase. You probably know generally what it is. But what is executive functioning in children, specifically? How do executive function skills develop by...

By Anubhuti Matta

How To Boost Executive Functioning Skills for Kids Aged 7 to 12

In earlier articles of this series on executive function in children, we’ve explored what executive function comprises, how these skills are predictors of academic success and what activities are suitable...

By Anubhuti Matta

How to Boost Executive Functioning Skills in Babies

...life. Executive functioning skills, which we explored in part one of this series, comprise abilities as basic as self-control, memory, self-awareness, reasoning, problem solving and more. Executive functioning skills in...

By The Swaddle Team

ADHD Might Be Three Different Conditions, Not One

...impairment. “The results of this study highlight that there are different neural systems related to executive functions and reward processing that may contribute independently to the development of ADHD symptoms,”...

Preserving The Process

Court to MH Parents: Take Complaints about Fee Hikes to School Committees, not State Officials

...committee itself. The law is in that sense progressive for it entrusts the executive committee with important functions and directs them to be performed coupled with the duties to be...

By The Swaddle Team

The Joy of Misery

Are We Wired to Be Discontented?

...its stream. On the other hand, our frontal lobe has developed over centuries to regulate people’s analytical and executive functions — giving us the ability to express language, control movement,...

By Saumya Kalia

The Science Behind Typical Teenage Behavior

...involved in higher executive functions like judgment, insight and impulse control, is the last to develop, around the early- to mid-20s. This means your teen isn’t purposefully trying to give...

By Deepa Padmanaban

Kids Start Self‑Motivated, Deliberate Practice of Skills at 6

...reflect on and monitor mental states; and executive functions, or, the cognitive processes that allow us to control our thoughts and behavior, which play important roles in allowing children to...

What You Should Know about the Latest Screen Time Guidelines for Kids

...stresses that “higher-order thinking skills and executive functions essential for school success, such as task persistence, impulse control, emotion regulation, and creative, flexible thinking, are best taught through unstructured and...

By Liesl Goecker

Severe, Long‑Term Depression Can Reduce People’s Brain Volumes: Study

...severe depression led to “reduce[d] volume in brain regions relevant for executive and cognitive functions and emotion regulation.” In other words, it impacts parts of the brain that are responsible...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Study Debunks Claims of Brain Training Apps

...function. These apps offer people the hope of improving their cognitive abilities through the routine performance of various “brain games” that tap cognitive functions such as memory, attention and cognitive...

Stress, Anxiety, Depression During Pregnancy Can Affect Fetal Brain Development: Study

...executive and higher cognitive functions, like time management, planning, working memory, and self-control. At the same time, researchers also noted stronger connections between parts of the brain connected to emotional...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Can Zapping People’s Brains Prevent Them From Committing Violent Crimes?

...cutting off functions used for bad; one is preventative, the other is retributive. Improved executive function — which includes impulse control, self-monitoring and emotional management — has benefits far beyond...

By Liesl Goecker

Getting on the Zzzzz!

Do Melatonin Supplements Really Induce Nightmares?

...nigra, nucleus accumbens, amygdala, hippocampus, cerebellum, and your eyes. These are areas that are heavily involved in learning, memory, processing fearful events and threatening stimuli, stress relations, and cognitive executive...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Turn The Narrative

Leaked Report Shows Government Color‑Coded Journalists Based on Political Sympathies

...(GoM) in a series of meetings last year. The Caravan leaked the content and key recommendations made in the report, which are being interpreted to serve the following functions: identifying...

By Saumya Kalia

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