In this episode, we discuss 12 strategies that can be used to improve executive functions. We organized the discussion under four main headings:

Routines and Approaches:

1. Maintaining a structured daily routine
2. Using planners and PDAs
3. Developing study skills and strategies (spaced repetition, memory strategies, developing working memory, doing one task at a time to completion)
4. Eating a healthy diet (fish oil, colorful veggies, berries, tea/coffee, walnuts, fermented foods, dark chocolate)

Cognition and Metacognition:

1. Thinking aloud
2. Interactive games
3. Cognitive remedial therapy: Developing and strengthening the core cognitive skills
4. Brain exercises

Movement

1. Routine exercise
2. Martial arts
3. Music training

Mindfulness

1. meditation and breathwork 

Links:

• Planning Time Management and Organization for Success: https://bit.ly/3c1AaHw
• Executive Functioning and Study Skills Course: https://bit.ly/3rMYbcJ
• Getting Things Done:https://amzn.to/3bXAI15
• Foods Linked to Better Brain Power: https://bit.ly/3wwis8n
• To improve students’ mental health, Yale study finds, teach them to breathe: https://bit.ly/3o9RSOB
• Is your brain healthy? A Stanford neurologist offers tips: https://stan.md/3BTlF2Q
• Episode 30: How To Optimize Your Brain-Body Function & Health | Huberman Lab: https://bit.ly/3kkNKKG
• Dr. Warren’s Cognitive Remedial Games and Brain Teasers: https://bit.ly/3CVIG6y
• Your Brain on Chocolate: https://bit.ly/3klVxb0
• Executive functioning games: https://bit.ly/305EvqN
• Working memory exercises: https://bit.ly/3D74mNm
• MPower: https://bit.ly/3BZ8rl2
• Hey, What’s the Big Idea: https://bit.ly/308386e
• Set: https://amzn.to/3mEUNOw
• Spot it: https://amzn.to/3oVEsYG]

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