Category: executive function
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Managing Impulsive Behavior
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Do you or a loved one have a pattern of reacting quickly before really thinking things through, only to later experience regret or other unpleasant consequences? Impulsive behavior can include relatively minor annoyances like talking out of turn or jumping the gun to more serious problems like taking dangerous risks or acting out destructively on…
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Improving Working Memory and Attention
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Working memory is the brain function that allows us to hold information in memory long enough to manipulate or perform some action on it in order to solve a problem or come up with a response. It is considered an “executive function“, which is a set of cognitive abilities that allow us to plan, organize,…