Association Between Age and Familial Risk for Alcoholism on Functional Connectivity in Adolescence

Youth with a family history of alcohol use disorder (family history positive; FHP) are at increased risk for developing maladaptive substance use relative to family history negative (FHN) peers. Building on earlier studies demonstrating morphological differences and distinct patterns of neural activation in FHP, the purpose of the present study was to investigate differential intrinsic functional connectivity among brain networks indexing premorbid risk of developing alcohol use disorder (AUD).

Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - February 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jatin G. Vaidya, Alexis L. Elmore, Alexander Wallace, Douglas R. Langbehn, John R. Kramer, Samuel Kuperman, Daniel S. O ’Leary Tags: New Research Source Type: research