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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Earlier alcohol use onset predicts poorer neuropsychological functioning in young adults

TT Nguyen‐Louie, GE Matt, J Jacobus… - Alcoholism: clinical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Background Neurodevelopment may be shaped by environmental factors such as alcohol
intake. Over 20% of US high school students begin drinking before age 14, and those who …

Neural predictors of initiating alcohol use during adolescence

LM Squeglia, TM Ball, J Jacobus… - American journal of …, 2017 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Underage drinking is widely recognized as a leading public health and social
problem for adolescents in the United States. Being able to identify at-risk adolescents …

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 …

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 …

Alcohol, psychological dysregulation, and adolescent brain development

DB Clark, DL Thatcher, SF Tapert - Alcoholism: Clinical and …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
While adolescent alcohol consumption has been asserted to adversely alter brain
development, research in human adolescents has not yet provided us with sufficient …

Adolescence and the trajectory of alcohol use: basic to clinical studies

SA Brown, SF Tapert - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging findings from developmentally focused research indicates subtle but important
neurocognitive disadvantages among adolescents with alcohol‐use disorders (AUD) as …