Brain development in heavy-drinking adolescents

LM Squeglia, SF Tapert, EV Sullivan… - American journal of …, 2015 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Heavy alcohol use during adolescence may alter the trajectory of normal brain
development. The authors measured within-subject changes in regional brain morphometry …

Altered brain developmental trajectories in adolescents after initiating drinking

A Pfefferbaum, D Kwon, T Brumback… - American journal of …, 2018 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: The authors sought evidence for altered adolescent brain growth trajectory
associated with moderate and heavy alcohol use in a large national, multisite, prospective …

Effects of alcohol use initiation on brain structure in typically developing adolescents

M Luciana, PF Collins, RL Muetzel… - The American journal of …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Alcohol use in excessive quantities has deleterious effects on brain structure
and behavior in adults and during periods of rapid neurodevelopment, such as prenatally …

Cortical and subcortical volumes in adolescents with alcohol dependence but without substance or psychiatric comorbidities

G Fein, D Greenstein, VA Cardenas, NL Cuzen… - Psychiatry Research …, 2013 - Elsevier
Most prior studies of the effects of excessive alcohol intake on the adolescent brain
examined alcohol-use-dependent samples with comorbid psychiatric and substance use …

Alcohol and drug use and the developing brain

LM Squeglia, KM Gray - Current psychiatry reports, 2016 - Springer
Adolescence is an important neurodevelopmental period marked by rapidly escalating rates
of alcohol and drug use. Over the past decade, research has attempted to disentangle pre …

Adolescent development of cortical and white matter structure in the NCANDA sample: role of sex, ethnicity, puberty, and alcohol drinking

A Pfefferbaum, T Rohlfing, KM Pohl, B Lane… - Cerebral …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Brain structural development continues throughout adolescence, when experimentation with
alcohol is often initiated. To parse contributions from biological and environmental factors on …

[HTML][HTML] Brain volume reductions in adolescent heavy drinkers

LM Squeglia, DA Rinker, H Bartsch, N Castro… - Developmental cognitive …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Brain abnormalities in adolescent heavy drinkers may result from alcohol
exposure, or stem from pre-existing neural features. Methods This longitudinal morphometric …

The influence of substance use on adolescent brain development

LM Squeglia, J Jacobus… - Clinical EEG and …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Adolescence is a unique period in neurodevelopment. Alcohol and marijuana use are
common. Recent research has indicated that adolescent substance users show …

The National Consortium on Alcohol and NeuroDevelopment in Adolescence (NCANDA): a multisite study of adolescent development and substance use

SA Brown, TY Brumback, K Tomlinson… - Journal of studies on …, 2015 - jsad.com
Objective: During adolescence, neurobiological maturation occurs concurrently with social
and interpersonal changes, including the initiation of alcohol and other substance use. The …

The effect of alcohol use on human adolescent brain structures and systems

LM Squeglia, J Jacobus, SF Tapert - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2014 - Elsevier
This article reviews the neurocognitive and neuroimaging literature regarding the effect of
alcohol use on human adolescent brain structure and function. Adolescents who engage in …