Associations between Adolescent Alcohol Use and Neurocognitive Functioning in Young Adulthood.

ABSTRACT: This study examined the associations between excessive alcohol intake during adolescence and neurocognitive functioning in young adulthood and whether these relations varied by sex. Participants were working-class Chilean adolescents (N = 692; M_age 16.0 years; 54.5% female) who provided frequency of past 30-day bingeing and past-year intoxication. Neurocognitive measures were completed in young adulthood (M_age 21.2 years). Illicit substance users were excluded a priori and other substance use was controlled. When males and females were considered simultaneously, no main effects of intoxication or bingeing were found. However, several sex-specific effects emerged for intoxication, such that more frequent intoxication was associated with poorer visu

SUBMITTER: East PL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10786341 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature