Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Mental Wellness for Adolescents and Adults. Executive functioning skills are your child’s mental control center, ...

I hold my planner like a life book. It's dazzled with color-coded words, stickers, notes, symbols, and doodles. One might think it's all for fun. In truth, it's all quite necessary. It's my executive ...

Even if you’ve never heard the term “executive function,” you may be painfully aware of how important it is for everyday life. Executive functioning is often described as the management system of the ...

Your working memory, cognitive flexibility, and self-regulation are core components of executive function (EF), an interrelated set of mental skills that lay the foundation for advanced cognitive ...

In order to successfully navigate our lives, we depend upon a wide range of emotional, social, and cognitive abilities organized within the networks of our executive brain. The executive brain is made ...