Executive functions and their disorders

Executive functions and their disorders.

The term executive function defines complex cognitive processing requiring the co-ordination of several subprocesses to achieve a particular goal. Neuropsychological evidence suggests that executive processing is intimately connected with the intact function of the frontal cortices. Executive dysfunction has been associated with a range of disorders, and is generally attributed to structural or...

Executive Functions: Eye movements and Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Executive functions are complex, higher order processes moderated primarily by the frontal lobe, specifically the prefrontal cortex. The complexity of executive function has made a universally accepted definition elusive, but attention (focusing on relevant information and ignoring distractors), working memory (maintaining information until execution), and motor planning (goal-directed motor pl...

Editorial: Executive Functions in Psychiatric Disorders

Relationship Between Executive Functions and Pragmatic Language in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Objectives: Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have problems in communicating and social interaction skills. Moreover, deficits in pragmatic language and executive functions are among the most important causes of communication and social interaction problems in this group. The present study aimed to determine the relationship between executive functioning and two of its indices (behav...

Compensatory and Rehabilitative Cognitive Training Improves Executive Functions and Metacognition

Purpose: Executive Functions (EF) improvement is considered as a pivotal axis in cognitive rehabilitation and enhancement according to the studies. Scholars believe that EF can be practiced and improved as a way to ameliorate cognitive ability. The main objective of the present paper is to boost executive functions and meta-cognition via compensatory and rehabilitative cognitive training. Metho...