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ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2016

Consequences of adolescent use of alcohol and other drugs: Studies using rodent models.

Linda Patia Spear

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Review in Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 89 papers.

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89citing papers in PubMed
8.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

89 citing papers in PubMed, 159 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Linda Patia SpearDepartment of Psychology, Developmental Exposure Alcohol Research Center (DEARC), Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, United States. Electronic address: lspear@binghamton.edu.
Binghamton University · US

Funding

Social Anxiety, Stress and Ethanol Sensitivity in Adolescence and AdulthoodP50AA017823 · NIAAA · UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY · PI Marvin Rafael Diaz · 2009 to 2026
$30.5M
Impact of adolescent intermittent ethanol on adult social reward and anxietyU01AA019972 · NIAAA · STATE UNIVERSITY OF NY,BINGHAMTON · PI VARLINSKAYA, ELENA I, WERNER, DAVID F · 2010 to 2024
$5.4M
NIAAA NIH HHS P50 AA017823NIAAA NIH HHS U01 AA019972
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Studies using animal models of adolescent exposure to alcohol, nicotine, cannabinoids, and the stimulants cocaine, 3,4-methylenedioxymethampethamine and methamphetamine have revealed a variety of persisting neural and behavioral consequences. Affected brain regions often include mesolimbic and prefrontal regions undergoing notable ontogenetic change during adolescence, although it is unclear whether this represents areas of specific vulnerability or particular scrutiny to date. Persisting alterations in forebrain systems critical for modulating reward, socioemotional processing and cognition have emerged, including apparent induction of a hyper-dopaminergic state with some drugs and/or attenuations in neurons expressing cholinergic markers. Disruptions in cognitive functions such as working memory, alterations in affect including increases in social anxiety, and mixed evidence for increases in later drug self-administration has also been reported. When consequences of adolescent and adult exposure were compared, adolescents were generally found to be more vulnerable to alcohol, nicotine, and cannabinoids, but generally not to stimulants. More work is needed to determine how adolescent drug exposure influences sculpting of the adolescent brain, and provide approaches to prevent/reverse these effects.

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BrainAdolescentAgingAnimalsCognitionEthanolHumansIllicit DrugsRewardEthanolIllicit DrugsAdolescentAffectAlcoholAnimal modelsBrainCannabinoidsCocaineCognitionEthanolMDMAMethamphetamineNicotineRat

Identifiers

PMID27484868
PMCPMC5074861
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