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Normal reward development likely to be blunted by frequent drinking in teenagers
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30598
Subject(s) - orbitofrontal cortex , normative , psychology , developmental psychology , adolescent development , child and adolescent psychiatry , psychiatry , clinical psychology , prefrontal cortex , cognition , philosophy , epistemology
Children who initiate drinking in teenage years, starting with no use and moving to frequent drinking at a young age, are likely to have disrupted normative development in behavioral control, researchers have found. In addition, both severe alcohol use in adolescents and blunted activity in the medial orbitofrontal cortex (which regulates decision‐making) during reward functions may be common factors. Both conclusions were found in a study of adolescents published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry .