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Cognitive Flexibility Restoration

Meaning

Cognitive Flexibility Restoration refers to the clinical or lifestyle process of re-establishing the brain’s innate capacity to adapt its behavioral and cognitive strategies rapidly in response to changing environmental rules or internal requirements. This critical executive function allows an individual to successfully shift mental sets, consider multiple perspectives simultaneously, and generate novel solutions when previously learned methods prove ineffective. Impairment in this area, often correlated with hormonal imbalances or chronic allostatic load, can manifest as mental rigidity or pronounced difficulty adjusting to new information. Restoration of this function is key to improving psychological resilience and adaptive capacity throughout the human lifespan.