Perplexed by what my Therapist told me what to do to battle my executive dysfunction. Does she kinda have a point?
Perplexed by what my Therapist told me what to do to battle my executive dysfunction. Does she kinda have a point?
What is ‘executive dysfunction’ and how do you overcome it?
Difficulty starting and getting overwhelmed by tasks are a few signs of it. We asked experts for tips on mitigating the effects
Can someone explain executive dysfunction to me?
Evidence grows that mental illness is more than dysfunction | Aeon Essays
Evidence is growing that mental illness is more than dysfunction, with enormous implications for treatment
New Treatment Guideline, Same Old Denialism
The science is clear. CBT and GET are not useful treatments for ME/CFS. But cognitive dissonance is a powerful force, and we can fully expect continued denials from the conspiratorial fringe
Functional analytic psychotherapy
Functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP) is a psychotherapeutic approach based on clinical behavior analysis (CBA) that focuses on the therapeutic relationship as a means to maximize client change. Specifically, FAP suggests that in-session contingent responding to client target behaviors leads to significant therapeutic improvements.
What if there was a simple practice that, if it were used consistently, would improve the reproducibility and rigor of psychology research?
ADHD and the Alexander Technique · Michael Ashcroft
Some people with ADHD have reported benefits in applying some of the ideas from my materials. What could be going on here? My interest in Alexander Technique’s potential relevance to ADHD arose because quite a few people with ADHD who have engaged with my materials have reported improvement in how...
Depression doesn't shrink the brain like we thought it did | New Scientist
For the past decade, depression has been linked to a shrunken hippocampus, which has a vital role in memory. But a large study using up-to-date scanning techniques suggests this may not be the case
Individual Differences in Executive Functions Are Almost Entirely Genetic in Origin
Recent psychological and neuropsychological research suggests that executive functions — the cognitive control processes that regulate thought and action — are multifaceted and that different types of executive functions are correlated but separable. The present multivariate twin study of three executive functions (inhibiting dominant responses, updating working memory representations, and shifting between task sets), measured as latent variables, examined why people vary in these executive control abilities and why these abilities are correlated but separable from a behavioral genetic perspective. Results indicated that executive functions are correlated because they are influenced by a highly heritable (99%) common factor that goes beyond general intelligence or perceptual speed, and they are separable because of additional genetic influences unique to particular executive functions. This combination of general and specific genetic influences places executive functions among the most heritable psychological traits. These results highlight the potential of genetic approaches for uncovering the biological underpinnings of executive functions and suggest a need for examining multiple types of executive functions to distinguish different levels of genetic influences.
Leading Innovation in Psychiatric Treatment | Alto Neuroscience
We leverage brain biology to develop personalized medicines, helping patients get better faster.
How to take things less personally and avoid mind reading | Psyche Guides
Always blaming yourself or assuming others think ill of you? A CBT therapist shares ways to break these self-critical habits
New paradigm for psychology just dropped
OR: the ideas your mother warned you about
‘PACE-Gate’: When clinical trial evidence meets open data access
Science is not always plain sailing and sometimes the voyage is across an angry sea. A recent clinical trial of treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome (the PACE trial) has whipped up a storm of controversy. Patients claim the lead authors overstated the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy and graded exercise therapy by lowering the thresholds they used to determine improvement. In this extraordinary case, patients discovered that the treatments tested had much lower efficacy after an information tribunal ordered the release of data from the PACE trial to a patient who had requested access using a freedom of information request.
In February 2024, I wrote Scientific Reports about a published meta-analysis claiming that mindfulness interventions affect neural plasticity, 'cementing the neuropsychological basis of mindfulness-based interventions'. The paper was retracted yesterday—here a little summary of the process.🧵
