A systematic review of neuropsychological studies involving young binge drinkers

Carbia, Carina; López‐Caneda, Eduardo; Corral, Montserrat; Cadaveira, Fernando

doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.04.013

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“…Likewise, early age drinkers seem to exhibit a higher susceptibility to the deleterious consequences of alcohol on the brain. Accordingly, several studies in both animals and humans have highlighted the major neurotoxic effects of acute intermittent alcohol consumption in the adolescent brain (10)(11)(12)(13), especially in the late matured structures such as the prefrontal cortex (PFC) (14)(15)(16)(17). In this sense, the youth tendency to engage in BD during adolescence has been associated with a protracted maturing course of the regions comprising this circuitry (18,19).…”

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Increased Nucleus Accumbens Volume in College Binge Drinkers - Preliminary Evidence From Manually Segmented MRI Analysis

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Introduction: Binge drinking (BD) is characterized by high alcohol intake in a short time followed by periods of withdrawal. This pattern is very common during adolescence and early adulthood, a developmental stage marked by the maturation of the fronto-striatal networks. The basal ganglia, specifically the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) and the caudate nucleus (CN), are part of the fronto-striatal limbic circuit involved in reward processes underlying addictive behaviors. Abnormal NAcc and CN morphometry has been noted in alcoholics and other drug abusers, however the effects of BD on these subcortical regions have been poorly explored. Accordingly, the main goal of the present study was to address potential morphological alterations in the NAcc and CN in a sample of college binge drinkers (BDs).Method: Manual segmentation of the NAcc and the CN was performed in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of 20 college BDs and 16 age-matched alcohol abstainers (18-23 years-old).Results: A two-way mixed ANOVA revealed no group differences in the volumetry of the CN, whereas increased NAcc volume was observed in the BD group when compared to their abstinent control peers.Discussion: These findings are in line with previous automatically segmented MRI reports highlighting abnormalities in a key region involved in drug rewarding processes in BDs.

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“…First, the cognitive deficits presented by binge drinkers (BD) have been widely described in the 2 last decades, studies mostly indexing impairments for executive and memory abilities (see Carbia et al., , for a review). The systematic review of Carbia and colleagues () also emphasized the absence of consistent findings in this research field (e.g., some studies highlighting massive impairments, others claiming for more subtle changes or even an absence of difficulty). To target this issue, some studies have attempted to specify the processes underlying the possible impairments (e.g., Bø et al., ) while others have emphasized the importance to explore the heterogeneous profiles of BD (Gierski et al., ; Lannoy et al., ), which suggests a large interindividual variation of impairments.…”

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Disrupted Fear and Sadness Recognition in Binge Drinking: A Combined Group and Individual Analysis

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Benzerouk

Maurage

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Alcoholism Clin & Exp Res

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Background: Binge drinking is a harmful pattern of alcohol consumption, associated with cognitive and cerebral impairments. Indeed, various cognitive processes have been identified as disrupted in binge drinking, ranging from perceptive to executive functions, but emotional processes have conversely been little investigated. Particularly, it is unclear to what extent binge drinkers (BD) present difficulties to recognize and categorize the emotions expressed by other individuals. Such an exploration would, however, offer a more comprehensive view of the deficits associated with alcohol-related disorders and potentially involved in the maintenance of this harmful habit.Methods: Fifty-two BD and 42 control participants performed an emotional task assessing the ability to recognize 6 basic emotions (i.e., anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happiness, and sadness). Accuracy score and detection threshold were collected for each emotion. To explore the extent of emotion recognition difficulties, 2 analyses were conducted: (i) classical repeated measures analyses of variance, to compare groups' performance, and (ii) multiple single-case analyses (i.e., Crawford's t-tests), to determine the percentage of BD presenting genuine emotion recognition deficits. Correlations were also performed between alcohol consumption characteristics and emotional recognition scores.Results: BD presented reduced performance for the recognition of fear and sadness. Multiple single cases highlighted that these deficits respectively concerned 21.15 and 15.38% of the binge drinking sample, and the relation between binge drinking and reduced sadness detection was supported by correlational analyses.Conclusions: These findings show that binge drinking is associated with a disrupted processing of emotional stimuli. By identifying heterogeneity in the impairments presented by BD, the present results also underline the usefulness of a combined group and individual analysis.

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“…This male advantage could be due to the activating effects of testosterone [29], though age and specific task modulate the magnitude and direction of the effects (e.g., [28,30]). However, there are reviews in literature that explore the history of BD consumption but not the acute effects it exerts and which does not support the existence of gender differences in the effects of alcohol on this type of memory (e.g., [31]).…”

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Binge Drinking and Memory in Adolescents and Young Adults

Vinader‐Caerols¹,

Monleón²

2020

Inhibitory Control Training - A Multidisciplinary Approach

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The binge drinking (BD) pattern of alcohol consumption, characterized by intermittent consumption of large quantities of alcohol in short periods, is currently prevalent during adolescence and early youth. This period is characterized by critical changes to the structural and functional development of brain areas related with memory, as well as other executive functions. As a result, BD has been associated with undermined learning and memory ability in adolescents and youths of both sexes. One distinctive contribution of this chapter is to evaluate, together, the impact of an acute BD episode, the sample's history of consumption, and its effect on learning and memory performance and as potential gender differences. The main findings of the published research show that BD has differential effects on several types of memory and confirm that women are more vulnerable to these detrimental effects of alcohol than are men. These cognitive differences between men and women seem to be overridden as the blood alcohol concentration progressively increases. As BD pattern of consumption has been associated with inhibitory control deficits, future research also should investigate long-term implementation of inhibitory control training, emphasizing the importance of this training as part of the intervention strategies focused on this at-risk group.

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A systematic review of neuropsychological studies involving young binge drinkers

Cited by 147 publications

References 103 publications

Increased Nucleus Accumbens Volume in College Binge Drinkers - Preliminary Evidence From Manually Segmented MRI Analysis

Increased Nucleus Accumbens Volume in College Binge Drinkers - Preliminary Evidence From Manually Segmented MRI Analysis

Disrupted Fear and Sadness Recognition in Binge Drinking: A Combined Group and Individual Analysis

Binge Drinking and Memory in Adolescents and Young Adults

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