Integracao de tres conceitos: Funcao executiva, memoria de trabalho e aprendizado [Integration of three concepts:
Executive function, working memory and learning].
The study will first investigate whether there are differences in
executive function between visually impaired students and a normative sample of sighted children, and whether visually impaired students at mainstream schools differ in their
executive function from visually impaired students at specialized schools.
Disaggregating
Executive Function: Inhibition, Working Memory, Cognitive Flexibility
In all WISC-IV tasks, the HMMHW group also obtained scores that indicate a lower performance of the
executive function. In subscales related to processing speed (Coding and Symbol Search) and working memory (Digit Span), this group obtained lower scores than the other.
The correlation between clinical features, decision making and
executive function in the OCD group
While neurofeedback can be used to improve
executive function, it's also used to treat ADD and ADHD, depression, autism, seizures, traumatic brain injuries and post-traumatic-stress disorder.
Because
executive function impairment is considered to be one of the most critical cognitive dysfunctions, it is of importance to investigate the brain functional networks in SZ patients during an
executive function task.
Depression accounts for
executive function deficits in obsessive-compulsive disorder Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychol Behav Neurol 2001; 14:241- 245.
Developmental delays in
executive function from 3 to 5 years of age predict kindergarten academic readiness.
"The idea here is that deficits in
executive function --things like planning, organization, and inhibition --these are known in an extensive literature to be really strongly associated with ADHD, and
executive function deficits link well with hoarding disorder as well," Dr.
Teenagers with ADD, ADHD &
Executive Function Deficits, third edition
McDowell et al., "Exercise improves
executive function and achievement and alters brain activation in overweight children: a randomized, controlled trial," Health Psychology, vol.
