Children with overweight or obesity appeared to have abnormalities in the brain that could affect executive functioning, an analysis of data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study showed.

Multitasking is not just an office skill. It’s key to functioning as a human, and it involves something called cognitive flexibility – the ability to smoothly switch between mental processes. UNC scientists conducted a study to image the neural activity analogues to cognitive flexibility and discover differences in the brain activity of children with ADHD and those without.