Further, regular meditation practice may slow age-related thinning of the frontal cortex, leading to longer lasting executive functioning.
Due to this, it is certain that mental time travel requires central executive functioning, and most often a conscious ability.
Patients with Alzheimer's disease have been shown to exhibit impairment in executive functioning as well.
These brain and molecular abnormalities could account for the characteristic impairment of executive functioning in autistic patients.
For all scales, higher scores indicate worse executive functioning.
There are several measures that can be employed to assess the executive functioning capabilities of an individual.
The prefrontal lobe controls two related executive functioning domains.
It is a K-12 school serving children and adolescents with a range of psychiatric, social, emotional, and executive functioning issues.
Unlike typically developing children, youths with spina bifida do not tend to improve in their executive functioning as they grow older.
Youth encountering the most social difficulties tend to have lower executive functioning and shunted hydrocephalus.