Episode 17: What is 'executive function' and why don't we have it?
The ADHD Adults Podcast
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The Importance of Executive Functions
Executive functions are really, really big, as you've said, theme and there's lots of elements within it. We will throughout the podcast talk about different elements of it in their entirety because they're very useful. So let me start by asking a stupid question. Imagine James, you pick a pencil up from your desk and move it into a drawer. Are you able to do that? I haven't got a drawer near me, so no. But what happened when you picked up a pen? The first thing that you did was that you decided inside your brain box that you would do that thing. You then told your arm to pick it up. And these are higher order brain functions also
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