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

The Neurobiology of Adolescent Drinking in Adulthood (NADIA) Consortium has focused on
the impact of adolescent binge drinking on brain development, particularly on effects that …

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

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 …

There are two key alcohol use patterns among human adolescents that confer increased
vulnerability for later alcohol abuse/dependence, along with neurocognitive alterations:(a) …

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 …

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 typically is initiated during adolescence, a period that coincides with critical
structural and functional maturation of the brain. Brain maturation and associated …

Late adolescence (ie, the age-group between 16 and 20 years) is characterized by
significant changes in neurological and cognitive processes, behavioral and social …

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 …