Approaches to Build Executive Function - The Martha's Vineyard Times

Approaches to build executive function - The Martha's Vineyard Times

“Executive Function guides your behavior for most everything you do,” says Noel Foy, a former classroom teacher and learning specialist. In her new book, “Executive Function: Strategies to build underdeveloped skills, maximize learning, and unlock potential,” we learn that, at its essence, executive function refers to the skills that govern planning, self-regulation, and goal-directed behavior. Foy’s interest in the subject took root when she di…

Problematic usage of the internet is associated with deficits in general executive functions, decision making, and stimulus-specific inhibitory control that may evolve in later stages of addiction development.