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Executive Command Resilience

Meaning

Executive Command Resilience is a functional term describing the central nervous system’s capacity to maintain optimal executive function—including planning, working memory, inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility—despite exposure to physiological or psychological stressors. This concept emphasizes the brain’s robust ability to execute high-level cognitive tasks under duress or fatigue. It is a direct measure of the functional integrity of the prefrontal cortex and its regulatory connection to deeper limbic structures. Clinical interventions seek to fortify the underlying neurochemical and hormonal systems that support this resilience.