CARSSU Executive 2011–2012

Executive dysfunction

Thumbnail The term "executive function" includes the ability to filter interference, engage in goaldirected behaviors, anticipate the consequences of one's actions, and to exhibit the adaptive concept of mental flexibility. The analysis of executive functions represents one of the most important research areas in contemporary neurosciences. It is partially—but not totally— related to frontal lo...

Executive function

(1976). Genetic dissection of the photoreceptor system in the compound eye of Drosophila melanogaster. (1978). A Drosophila mutant with a temperature-sensitive block in nerve conduction. synonymous with those behaviours and abilities. At an abstract level of processing, least tied to routine behaviour, are flexible representations of goals and intentions. Such 'higher-level' representations are...

Executive Stress

I HOPE that the first point I want to make about executive stress has also been made, equally emphatically. by my colleagues who are also contributing to this issue. It is, of course, that "executive stress" is no different from maternal stress, geriatric stress, boilermakers' stress, and so on. Because we live in an age of classification we are happy when we can tie a label on to something and...

Executive functions.

Executive functions (EFs) make possible mentally playing with ideas; taking the time to think before acting; meeting novel, unanticipated challenges; resisting temptations; and staying focused. Core EFs are inhibition [response inhibition (self-control--resisting temptations and resisting acting impulsively) and interference control (selective attention and cognitive inhibition)], working memor...

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