This article reviews the neurocognitive and neuroimaging literature regarding the effect of
alcohol use on human adolescent brain structure and function. Adolescents who engage in …

This review examines neuroimaging and neurocognitive findings on alcohol-related toxicity
in adolescents. Teens who meet criteria for alcohol use disorders, as well as those who …

Many people begin to drink alcohol during adolescence and young adulthood. Alcohol
consumption during this developmental period may have profound effects on brain structure …

Aims: Alcohol-dependent people who are middle-aged or older have a widespread loss of
cortical grey and white matter, particularly in the prefrontal cortex (PFC). We examine if brain …

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 …

While adolescent alcohol consumption has been asserted to adversely alter brain
development, research in human adolescents has not yet provided us with sufficient …

Most prior studies of the effects of excessive alcohol intake on the adolescent brain
examined alcohol-use-dependent samples with comorbid psychiatric and substance use …

Background: Alcohol use in excessive quantities has deleterious effects on brain structure
and behavior in adults and during periods of rapid neurodevelopment, such as prenatally …

Developmental changes in structure and functioning are thought to make the adolescent
brain particularly sensitive to the negative effects of alcohol. Although alcohol use disorders …

Emerging findings from developmentally focused research indicates subtle but important
neurocognitive disadvantages among adolescents with alcohol‐use disorders (AUD) as …