Rehabilitation of executive functions: Implications and strategies Rehabilitación de las funciones ejecutivas: implicaciones y estrategias Reabilitação das funções executivas: Implicações e estratégias

Executive Functions (EF) concern a range of abilities including problem-solving, planning, initiation, selfmonitoring, conscious attention, cope with new situations and the ability to modify plans if necessary. It’s a high cognitive function that is crucial for a person to get engaged and maintain daily activities whilst keeping a good quality of life. Problems in the EF were formerly known as Dysexecutive Syndrome (DS). There are many models concerning DS, although the literature on the subject still remains unclear. Several works appoint the effects brought by elderly life, as well as abuse of drugs and some psychopathologies. These factors are known to increase the distress of the frontal circuits and that could be associated to executive deficits. The effects of DS would compromise individuals in day-to-day routi