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Today's guest is Professor Adele Diamond, who is one of the most important

neuroscientists we have today.

Professor Diamond runs the developmental cognitive neuroscience lab at the University. and

anytime you hear executive function skills,

executive function-based skills,

self-regulation, cognition. function based skills self regulation

cognition and learning those kinds of things are really her

wheelhouse and her pioneering research has led so many people to understand how children's brains operate

and that these are learned skills that we can really make a difference in how our children's

brand develops.

So today, given the state of the world, I wanted to talk to Professor Diamond about what we know that we can do to help promote

executive function skills in children in a time when traditional academics are going to be very compromised.

And so we're talking about what executive function skills are.

A really layman's way of looking at it would be to say that they're kind of the air traffic

control system of the brain, but Professor Diamond's going to get into that.

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