ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2016
Neurobiological signatures associated with alcohol and drug use in the human adolescent brain.
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63 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- PPAR-gamma agonist pioglitazone modifies craving intensity and brain white matter integrity in patients with primary cocaine use disorder: a double-blind randomized controlled pilot trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2017Trial
- Substance use involvement moderates the effect of cortisol response on white-matter microstructure longitudinally.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Potentially traumatic events and substance use do not predict changes in resting state functional connectivity in early adolescence.NeuroImage · 2026Article
- Global burden of noncommunicable diseases attributable to modifiable behavioral risks among adolescents and young adults aged 10-24 years, 1990-2021.BMC medicine · 2025Article
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- Stress and substance use disorders: risk, relapse, and treatment outcomes.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2024Review
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- Burden of drug use disorders in the United States from 1990 to 2021 and its projection until 2035: results from the GBD study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Betting on Your Feelings: The Interplay between Emotion and Cognition in Gambling Affective Task.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Polydrug use in Australian 12-14 year olds from 2006 to 2017: an examination of drug use profiles, emotional control problems, and family relationship characteristics.Australian journal of psychology · 2023Article
- Signal in the noise: Altered brain activation among adolescent alcohol users detected via the analysis of intra-individual variabilityPsychopharmacology · 2022Article
- Individual-, peer-, and parent-level substance use-related factors among 9- and 10-year-olds from the ABCD Study: Prevalence rates and sociodemographic differences.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2022Article
- Reduced structural connectivity of the amygdala is associated with childhood trauma in adult patients with alcohol use disorder.Addiction biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Magnetic resonance (MR) techniques provide opportunities to non-invasively characterize neurobiological milestones of adolescent brain development. Juxtaposed to the critical finalization of brain development is initiation of alcohol and substance use, and increased frequency and quantity of use, patterns that can lead to abuse and addiction. This review provides a comprehensive overview of existing MR studies of adolescent alcohol and drug users. The most common alterations reported across substance used and MR modalities are in the frontal lobe (63% of published studies). This is not surprising, given that this is the last region to reach neurobiological adulthood. Comparatively, evidence is less consistent regarding alterations in regions that mature earlier (e.g., amygdala, hippocampus), however newer techniques now permit investigations beyond regional approaches that are uncovering network-level vulnerabilities. Regardless of whether neurobiological signatures exist prior to the initiation of use, this body of work provides important direction for ongoing prospective investigations of adolescent brain development, and the significant impact of alcohol and substance use on the brain during the second decade of life.
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