Executive Function

EF is how the brain initiates tasks; it is a set of cognitive processes that help people self-regulate so they can effectively plan, prioritize, and sustain effort toward their goals. EF is operated from the Pre-frontal Cortex of the brain and is literally shut down when the Amygdala (the brain’s environmental threat detector) is triggered, which means people are incapable of being rational or making choices in those moments.