ArticleAlcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.)2018
High-intensity binge drinking is associated with alterations in spontaneous neural oscillations in young adults.
Article in Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07746154 (Alpha Down EEG Neurofeedback for Alcohol Use Disorder), which is not on this map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Alpha Down EEG Neurofeedback for Alcohol Use Disorder: Feasibility Trial
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of Alcohol on EEG Activity: A Systematic Review Focused on Sex-Related Differences in Youth.Current neuropharmacology · 2025Pooled it
- A social media intervention for high-intensity drinking among emerging adults: a pilot randomized controlled trial.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2024Trial
- Electrophysiological sexual dimorphism as an early risk marker of alcohol use in adolescence: A longitudinal neuroimaging study.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Article
- Repeated alcohol drinking in mice is associated with bidirectional alterations in corticostriatal coherence.Neuropharmacology · 2025Article
- Sex-related differences in young binge drinkers on the neurophysiological response to stress in virtual reality.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Younger, drunk, and fast: Paradoxical rapid reaction time in hazardous drinkers.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- Occipital neural dynamics in cannabis and alcohol use: independent effects of addiction.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Compensatory neuroadaptation to binge drinking: Human evidence for allostasis.Addiction biology · 2021Article
- Predicting risk for Alcohol Use Disorder using longitudinal data with multimodal biomarkers and family history: a machine learning study.Molecular psychiatry · 2021Article
- Altered neural dynamics in occipital cortices serving visual-spatial processing in heavy alcohol users.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2020Article
- Neural oscillatory dynamics of inhibitory control in young adult binge drinkers.Biological psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Heavy episodic alcohol consumption (also termed binge drinking) contributes to a wide range of health and cognitive deficits, but the associated brain-based indices are poorly understood. The current study used electroencephalography (EEG) to examine spontaneous neural oscillations in young adults as a function of quantity, frequency, and the pattern of their alcohol consumption. Sixty-one young adults (23.4 ± 3.4 years of age) were assigned to binge drinking (BD) and light drinking (LD) groups that were equated on gender, race/ethnic identity, age, educational background, and family history of alcoholism. EEG activity was recorded during eyes-open and eyes-closed resting conditions. Each participant's alpha peak frequency (APF) was used to calculate absolute power in individualized theta and alpha frequency bands, with a canonical frequency range used for beta. APF was slower by 0.7 Hz in BD, especially in individuals engaging in high-intensity drinking, but there were no changes in alpha power. BD also exhibited higher frontal theta and beta power than LD. Alpha slowing and increased theta power in BD remained after accounting for depression, anxiety, and personality characteristics, while elevated beta power covaried with sensation seeking. Furthermore, APF slowing and theta power correlated with various measures of alcohol consumption, including binge episodes and blackouts, but not with measures of working and episodic memory, cognitive flexibility, processing speed, or personality variables, suggesting that these physiological changes may be modulated by high-intensity alcohol intake. These results are consistent with studies of alcohol-use disorder (AUD) and support the hypothesis that binge drinking is a transitional stage toward alcohol dependence. The observed thalamocortical dysrhythmia may be indicative of an excitatory-inhibitory imbalance in BD and may potentially serve as an index of the progressive development of AUD, with a goal of informing possible interventions to minimize alcohol's deleterious effects on the brain.
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