Individuals who struggle to complete tasks (at home, school, or the workplace) may not have a problem with executive function—they may have a misalignment of intentions and goals.

Principal Ian Knox’s thoughtful opinion essay, “Kindergartners Are Struggling With Self-Regulation. How Principals Can Respond ” (July 8, 2025), centers on steps school leaders can take to respond ...

Recent findings from research in the Department of Psychology in the College of Science at the University of Nevada, Reno found that in younger people, increased screen time on devices like ...

SOS4Students announced this week the release of a comprehensive guide designed to help parents understand when and how to pursue executive function assessments for their high-achieving students. The ...

When it comes to understanding the learning and behavior needs of autistic students, executive function (EF) skills are often overlooked but they can significantly impact a child’s success at school ...

Learning specialist Noel Foy helps participants build skills. “Executive Function guides your behavior for most everything you do,” says Noel Foy, a former classroom teacher and learning specialist.

Long working hours might not just be bad for you, they could also be altering the structure of your brain, a new study suggests. The research was conducted by two scientists at South Korea’s Chung-Ang ...

President Donald Trump is continuing to promote the unsupported “lab leak” COVID-19 theory, using it now to rationalize a new executive order designed to prohibit federal funding of certain research ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday that seeks to limit federal funding for gain-of-function research, which is used to study how pathogens can become more harmful by causing ...

Section 1. Purpose. Dangerous gain-of-function research on biological agents and pathogens has the potential to significantly endanger the lives of American citizens. If left unrestricted, its effects ...

Mayor Eric Adams’ executive budget proposal adds hundreds of millions of dollars to the current spending plan to stave off some short-term funding shortfalls for Medicaid and other public health ...

Within 60 days of the date of the order, agency heads, in consultation with the agency’s senior procurement officials, must submit to the administrator of GSA proposals for GSA to “conduct domestic ...