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ANNUAL REVIEW OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, VOL 9
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages 703-721Publisher
ANNUAL REVIEWS
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-050212-185610
Keywords
adolescence; alcohol; development; imaging
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- NIAAA [R01 AA013419]
- NIDA [F32 DA032188]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM [R01AA013419] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE [F32DA032188] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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This review examines neuroimaging and neurocognitive findings on alcohol-related toxicity in adolescents. Teens who meet criteria for alcohol use disorders, as well as those who engage in subdiagnostic binge drinking behaviors, often show poorer neurocognitive performance, alterations in gray and white matter brain structure, and discrepant functional brain activation patterns when compared to nonusing and demographically matched controls. Abnormalities are also observed in teens with a family history of alcoholism, and such differences in neuromaturation may leave youths at increased risk for the development of an alcohol use disorder or increased substance use severity. More prospective investigations are needed, and future work should focus on disentangling preexisting differences from dose-dependent effects of alcohol on neurodevelopment. Intervention strategies that utilize neuroimaging findings (e. g., identified weaknesses in particular neural substrates and behavioral correlates) may be helpful in both prevention and intervention campaigns for teens both pre- and postinitiation of alcohol use.
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