Eli5 What is executive disfunction?
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So imagine your brain is a race track and the car continuously loops cuz the brain is always working right?
People who don’t experience executive dysfunction can navigate the car into certain pitstops without issues. These pitstops are literally anything your brain is telling you to do like “i will get out of bed now”
A person who experiences executive dysfunction has the same thing except the car has no good brakes. So the car keeps looping in attempt to pull out to the exact pitstop of “i will get out of bed now.”
It doesn’t matter how many times we think it, we can’t get out of bed until the message reaches the rest of the body – but our brains are literally lacking in the brain function of being able to get that message to the rest of the body at an efficient time
Sometimes, we get lucky and we can do something at the first few tries; but more often than not we’re stuck trying to get the command to rest of the body.
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