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Changes in alcohol-related brain networks across the first year of college: a prospective pilot study using fMRI effective connectivity mapping

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Beltz, Adriene M., Gates, Kathleen M., Engels, Anna S., Molenaar, Peter C.M., Pulido, Carmen, Turrisi, Robert, Berenbaum, Sheri A., Gilmore, Rick O. +1 more·2013·Addictive Behaviors

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The upsurge in alcohol use that often occurs during the first year of college has been convincingly linked to a number of negative psychosocial consequences and may negatively affect brain development. In this longitudinal functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) pilot study, we examined changes in neural responses to alcohol cues across the first year of college in a normative sample of late adolescents. Participants (N=11) were scanned three times across their first year of college (summer, first semester, second semester), while completing a go/no-go task in which images of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages were the response cues. A state-of-the-art effective connectivity mapping technique was used to capture spatiotemporal relations among brain regions of interest (ROIs) at the level of the group and the individual. Effective connections among ROIs implicated in cognitive control were greatest at the second assessment (when negative consequences of alcohol use increased), and effective connections among ROIs implicated in emotion processing were lower (and response times were slower) when participants were instructed to respond to alcohol cues compared to non-alcohol cues. These preliminary findings demonstrate the value of a prospective effective connectivity approach for understanding adolescent changes in alcohol-related neural processes.

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Beltz, A. M., Gates, K. M., Engels, A. S., Molenaar, P. C. M., Pulido, C., Turrisi, R., Berenbaum, S. A., Gilmore, R. O., & Wilson, S. J.
Affiliations
  • Pennsylvania State University (US)
  • University of California San Diego (US)
Corresponding author
Beltz, Adriene M.
Venue
Addictive Behaviors
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2013-04
Volume
38
Issue
4
Pages
2052-2059
ISSN
0306-4603 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1969868645
Cited by
36
References
58
Citations by year
2023: 2 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 1
FWCI
2.18
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Addictive Behaviors (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Deep Blue (University of Michigan) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • Social Science Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University
  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R01AA015737)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Keywords
alcohol consumption, university students, effective connectivity, alcohol cue reactivity, cognitive control, emotional processing, brain development, late adolescence, go/no-go task
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Alcohol Drinking, Alcoholic Beverages, Amygdala, Brain, Brain Mapping, Cues, Female, Frontal Lobe, Gyrus Cinguli, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Longitudinal Studies, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Neural Pathways, Pilot Projects, Prospective Studies, Students, Universities, Prefrontal Cortex, Adolescent Development, Young Adult, Functional Neuroimaging

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