Studies over the last decade demonstrate that adolescence is a brain maturation period from
childhood to adulthood. Plastic and dynamic processes drive adolescent brain development …

While adolescent alcohol consumption has been asserted to adversely alter brain
development, research in human adolescents has not yet provided us with sufficient …

Adolescence is a particularly vulnerable neurodevelopmental period marked by high rates
of engagement with risky alcohol use. This review summarizes the cognitive and neural …

Per occasion, alcohol consumption is higher in adolescents than in adults in both humans
and laboratory animals, with changes in the adolescent brain probably contributing to this …

Alcohol use increases across adolescence and is a concern in the United States. In humans,
males and females consume different amounts of alcohol depending on the age of initiation …

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 …

In the past 15 years, both human and animal studies have advanced our understanding of
the effects of adolescent alcohol exposure on behavioral and neural development …

Objective: This article reviews the literature on adolescent brain development and considers
the impact of these neural alterations on the propensity to use and misuse alcohol. Methods …

In adolescents, alcohol interacts extensively with reward neurocircuitry and corticolimbic
structure and function in ways that promote maladaptive behaviors that lead to addiction …

Adolescence is a developmental period when physical and cognitive abilities are optimized,
when social skills are consolidated, and when sexuality, adolescent behaviors, and frontal …