The importance of clarifying the conceptual basis underlying cognition-optimizing interventions: Commentary on Moreau (2022).

Clarifying the conceptual basis of cognition-optimizing interventions is essential to advancing toward a precise intervention science. Interventions to enhance executive functions aim to optimize the individual cognitive functions that are critically suppressed by intersected discrimination, other traumas, and peri-/post-traumatic disorders. Traumatic stress and its mental health outcomes suppress executive function and prevent the expression of the total cognitive potential of the individual. The goal of cognition-optimizing interventions, including cognitive training, lifestyle changes, and optimizing precognitive identity and motivational will to exist, live, survive, and fight, is to optimize the individual cognitive potentials. Questioning the malleability of cognitive abilities may be the wrong question to identify the conceptual basis of cognition-optimizing interventions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).