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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Downtown Memphis Commission unanimously approved its new President and CEO. The Board of Directors chose Chandell Ryan for the position out of over 20 applicants. Ryan will oversee the entire staff and assume all executive functions. “Chandell was an obvious standout,” said Benjamin Orgel, DMC board president. “Her background is perfectly […]
A vast body of work highlights executive functions (EFs) as robust correlates of mathematics achievement over the primary and preschool years. Yet, despite such correlational evidence, there is limited evidence that EF interventions yield improvements in early years mathematics. As intervention studies are a powerful tool to move beyond correlation to causality, failures of transfer from executive functions interventions are, we argue, highly problematic for both applied and theoretical reasons. We review the existing correlational and intervention literature at complementary neuroscientific, ...
A world-first clinical trial in Australia has found that Sailuotong (SLT), a Chinese herbal medicine compound, can significantly improve memory and executive functions in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Key findings: The trial, led by researchers at Western Sydney University, found that participants who received 180 milligrams of SLT per day for a period of 12 weeks demonstrated improvements in certain memory and executive functions — including delayed episodic memory retrieval, switching between cognitive concepts, higher-level divided attention and multitasking — ...
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