Effect of childhood maltreatment on cognitive flexibility of executive function: A review / 中国心理卫生杂志

ABSTRACT

Cognitive flexibility is a kind of ability to convert mental representation,including reactive flexibility and spontaneous flexibility,and as the vital components of executive function.The experience of the childhood maltreatment may damage both reactive flexibility and spontaneous flexibility and result in cognitive flexibility dysfunction.Prefrontal cortex is the main brain regions of cognitive flexibility,childhood maltreatment experience through injuring the growth of frontal lobe leading to the cognitive flexibility dysfunction.Future research could combine the method of behavioral test and brain damage measurement,to carry on minute research on the two components of cognitive flexibility and brain mechanisms at the same time.