Eli5 What is executive disfunction?
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Executive functions are cognitive abilities that drive goal-oriented behavior and are critical to the ability to adapt to the environnement.
They can be divided into 4 categories :working memory, inhibition, set shifting, and fluency.
Dysexecutive symptoms can occur in most neurodegenerative diseases and in many other neurologic, psychiatric, and systemic illnesses. Therefore people with dysexecutive functions have trouble with time management,
paying attention or switch focus plan and organize stuff.
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