In addition, interviews with GPs explored their relationship and communications with the CMHT, and topics covered in interviews with secondary care participants (CMHT leads and psychiatrists) included team structure and function, decision-making about referrals, perceptions of the role of other team members as well as relationships with GPs.
Decision-making: Constant decision-making can be taxing as it exhausts your executive function.
It is well documented that fatigue can impair daily functioning [ 24], social judgment and cognitive functioning, such as memory, decision-making, concentration and planning [ 26- 29].
Executive function impacts your memory, decision-making abilities, emotional control, and focus.
The ability to maintain information over short periods of time (i.e., working memory) is critically important in a variety of cognitive functions including language, planning, and decision-making.
The PFC is involved in mediating numerous cognitive-executive functions, e.g. working memory, decision-making, inhibitory response control, and attentional set-shifting, of central relevance to ADHD [ 16].
She explains: "In general, love recruits neurotransmitters (eg, dopamine) and neural basis that activate brain areas involved in these complex functions: emotion, reward, goal-directed behavior, decision-making.
The mammalian prefrontal cortex comprises a set of highly specialized brain areas containing billions of cells and serves as the centre of the highest-order cognitive functions, such as memory, cognitive ability, decision-making and social behaviour1,2.
Deciding what is essential, while decision-making faculties still function We root for Alice Howland.
