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Google Scholar Links 3/13/20

On March 13, 2020 March 11, 2020 Filed under Blog No Comments

Here are this week’s top 10 articles from our EF Google Scholar alerts!

Acute after-school screen time in children decreases impulse control and activation toward high-calorie food stimuli in brain regions related to reward and attention (2020)
Cardiac vagal tone and executive functions: Moderation by physical fitness and family support (2020)
Cerebral microstructural abnormalities in impulsivity: a magnetic resonance study (2020)
Improving Executive Functioning Skills in Children with Autism through Cognitive Training Program (2019)
Increasing Smoking Cessation Adherence: Do We Need to Consider the Role of Executive Function and Rumination? (2020)
Mindfulness and Executive Functions: Making the Case for Elementary School Practice (2020)
Parent and Teacher Perspectives on the Role of Executive Functioning in School Success for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (2020)
Pragmatics, Theory of Mind and executive functions in schizophrenia: Disentangling the puzzle using machine learning (2020)
The connection between executive functioning and comprehension of figurative language in students with and without learning disabilities (2019)
The Role of Anxiety in Executive Functions of Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Mathematical Learning Disability Comorbidity (2019)

Meme Mondays:

On March 9, 2020 February 1, 2020 Filed under Meme Mondays No Comments

Not just ADHD, but goes for most folks with EDF!

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You have instructions written down. You don’t need them, but you check them anyway. Somehow they’re different from what you remember. Have they changed since you tucked the paper in your pocket?

You realize that you’ve lost your train of thought. You can’t remember what you were thinking before. There is only your present thought, now a loop of panic at your lost memory.

You stop in the middle of a room. Why are you here? Which room did you come from? You leave the room and remember what you were going to do. You walk back into the room. Why are you here?

You bring up an inside joke with a friend. They look at you blankly. They do not remember this joke. But you were there when I made it, you argue. They were not. They are not the friend you are thinking of. You realize it was your other friend, from work instead of high school, with blond hair instead of brown, tall instead of short. You do not know how these two friends are so similar in your mind.

You refer to every experience as happening “the other day.” Was it three years ago or yesterday? You try to remember context clues. Time is not real.

Someone asks you for an important piece of information. You have not thought about it since you saved it on your computer, labelled very clearly. You search through your files. It is not there. You find it days later by accident, labelled with a cryptic set of codes. You don’t know why you would label it this way. No one else uses this computer but you.

You are running late. You are always running late.

You have lost something. You check everywhere. You check everywhere again. Someone tells you to think of when you last had it. You don’t tell them that is the problem.

You reach the end of the page. You can’t remember what you just read. — Source

Meme Monday: Working Memory Storage

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Source

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Meme Mondays: Time Management

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Many EDF folks struggle with impaired time managment, not only ADHDers!

Meme Monday: First Priorities

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Accurate.

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(PS: Lots of people with EDF struggle with prioritization, not only ADHDers!)