Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Mental Wellness for Adolescents and Adults. Executive functioning skills are your child’s mental control center, ...

Over the past year, I’ve received startlingly similar phone calls from families of college students: Their first- and second-year students across the United States are struggling with basic tasks and ...

Vulnerability causes people to do some interesting things. For preteens, it often manifests into cutthroat judgment and meanness as defense mechanisms. If you look stupid, then I won’t. Couple that ...

Aaron Buss received funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Alexis McCraw does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from ...

As a child and teen psychotherapist, I have seen an influx of parents telling me that their child has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In this post, I would like to delve into ADHD, ...

Researchers from Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology found that educated children perform better on psychological tests measuring executive function abilities, challenging the accuracy ...

Executive function — the term for critical mental skills like organization, focus, time management and emotional regulation — help all of us navigate our daily lives. People with ADHD are much more ...

Can artificial intelligence (AI) become a powerful treatment tool for kids and adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)? If we view ADHD as a ...