With strengthened attention and focus skills, teens become better at persevering, planning for goal achievement, organizing, sustaining motivation, and managing emotions.

To the untrained eye, planning and organizing look very similar. Both words might even be used interchangeably in casual conversation. However, there's an important difference between planning and ...

In Why Self-Control Fails in Dementia, I explained how part of frontal lobe function is to regulate behavior. Another part of frontal lobe function is to help us plan and organize actions and ...