scholarly journals Intertemporal Choice Behavior in Emerging Adults and Adults: Effects of Age Interact with Alcohol Use and Family History Status

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher T. Smith ◽  
Eleanor A. Steel ◽  
Michael H. Parrish ◽  
Mary K. Kelm ◽  
Charlotte A. Boettiger
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Choice Behavior ◽  
Intertemporal Choice

scholarly journals The role of pubertal timing in the link between family history of alcohol use disorder and late adolescent substance use

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 107955
Author(s):  
Alexander S. Weigard ◽  
Jillian E. Hardee ◽  
Robert A. Zucker ◽  
Mary M. Heitzeg ◽  
Adriene M. Beltz
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Family History ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Alcohol Use Disorder ◽  
Pubertal Timing ◽  
Adolescent Substance Use ◽  
Late Adolescent ◽  
Adolescent Substance ◽  
History Of

Alcohol Use in Emerging Adults Associated with Lower Rich-Club Connectivity and Greater Connectome Network Disorganization

2021 ◽  
pp. 109198
Author(s):  
Jessica P.Y. Hua ◽  
Siemon C. de Lange ◽  
Martijn P. van den Heuvel ◽  
Cassandra L. Boness ◽  
Constantine J. Trela ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Rich Club

Racial Discrimination and Trajectories of Problematic Alcohol Use Among African American Emerging Adults: The Role of Organizational Religious Involvement

2021 ◽  
pp. 109019812110516
Author(s):  
Danielle R. Busby ◽  
Meredith O. Hope ◽  
Daniel B. Lee ◽  
Justin E. Heinze ◽  
Marc A. Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Religious Involvement ◽  
Problematic Alcohol ◽  
Stable Class ◽  
Problematic Alcohol Use

Racial discrimination jeopardizes a wide range of health behaviors for African Americans. Numerous studies demonstrate significant negative associations between racial discrimination and problematic alcohol use among African Americans. Culturally specific contexts (e.g., organized religious involvement) often function protectively against racial discrimination’s adverse effects for many African Americans. Yet organized religious involvement may affect the degree to which racial discrimination increases problematic alcohol use resulting in various alcohol use trajectories. These links remain understudied in emerging adulthood marked by when individuals transition from adolescence to early adult roles and responsibilities. We use data from 496 African American emerging adults from the Flint Adolescent Study (FAS) to (a) identify multiple and distinct alcohol use trajectories and (b) examine organizational religious involvement’s protective role. Three trajectory classes were identified: the high/stable, (20.76% of sample; n = 103); moderate/stable, (39.52% of sample; n = 196); and low/rising, (39.72% of the sample; n = 197). After controlling for sex, educational attainment, and general stress, the interaction between racial discrimination and organized religious involvement did not influence the likelihood of classifying into the moderate/stable class or the low/rising class, compared with the high/stable class. These results suggest organized religious involvement counteracts, but does not buffer racial discrimination’s effects on problematic alcohol use. Findings emphasize the critical need for culturally sensitive prevention efforts incorporating organized religious involvement for African American emerging adults exposed to racial discrimination. These prevention efforts may lessen the role of racial discrimination on health disparities related to alcohol use.

scholarly journals Family history of alcohol use disorder is associated with brain structural and functional changes in healthy first-degree relatives

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 107-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Filippi ◽  
Nicolas Hoertel ◽  
Eric Artiges ◽  
Guillaume Airagnes ◽  
Christophe Guérin-Langlois ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Childhood Maltreatment ◽  
Alcohol Use Disorder ◽  
Grey Matter ◽  
Brain Regions ◽  
Whole Brain ◽  
Childhood Trauma Questionnaire ◽  
Functional Changes ◽  
History Of

Abstract Background: Neuroimaging studies of vulnerability to Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) have identified structural and functional variations which might reflect inheritable features in alcohol-naïve relatives of AUD individuals (FH+) compared to controls having no such family history (FH-). However, prior research did not simultaneously account for childhood maltreatment, any clinically significant disorder and maternal AUD. Therefore, we mainly aimed to investigate the brain structure and reward-related neural activations (fMRI), using whole-brain analysis in FH+ young adults with no prevalent confounders. Methods: 46 FH+ and 45 FH- male and female participants had no severe childhood maltreatment exposure, neither any psychiatric disorder or AUD, nor a prenatal exposure to maternal AUD. We used a 3 T MRI coupled with a whole brain voxel-based method to compare between groups the grey matter volumes and activations in response to big versus small wins during a Monetary Incentive Delay task. The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire score was used as confounding variable in the analyses to account for the remaining variance between groups. Results: Compared to FH- controls, FH+ participants had smaller grey matter volumes in the frontal and cingulate regions as well as in the bilateral nucleus accumbens and right insula. The FH+ participants’ fMRI datasets denoted a blunted activation in the middle cingulum with respect to FH- controls’ during the processing of reward magnitude, and a greater activation in the anterior cingulum in response to anticipation of a small win. Conclusions: Family history of alcohol use disorder is linked to structural and functional variations including brain regions involved in reward processes.

Childhood Maltreatment, Alcohol Use Disorders, and Treatment Utilization in a National Sample of Emerging Adults

2013 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abby L. Goldstein ◽  
Christine A. Henriksen ◽  
Danielle M. Davidov ◽  
Melissa Kimber ◽  
Nicole Y. Pitre ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Childhood Maltreatment ◽  
Alcohol Use Disorders ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Treatment Utilization
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