Disordered executive function can impair a person’s ability to organize and manage behavior. Executive function is a broad group of mental skills that enable people to complete tasks and interact with ...

Experimental research suggests a positive association between executive function (EF) and physical activity (PA). Observational research examining PA in everyday life does not consistently support ...

Researchers at Kanazawa University have identified a previously unrecognized mechanism by which structural changes in the ...

Researchers have generated a new map of connectivity from a part of the brain called the basal ganglia, a hub for regulating motor and behavior functions. The breadth of connections revealed could ...

Throughout the past several decades, psychoanalysis and behavior analysis have been presented as the two opposite sides of clinical psychology. Psychoanalysis focuses on unseen forces and behavior ...

Researchers learn more about the relationship between sexual behavior, function, and cognition (people's ability to think and make decisions). The number of people who live at home with Alzheimer's ...

Executive dysfunction is a term for a range of cognitive and behavioral difficulties that can occur after injury to the frontal lobes of the brain. The three core areas of executive function include ...

One of the main goals of neuroscience is to understand how brains learn and remember just by interacting with the environment. Examples of this learning and memory range from how we find our way home ...