Alcohol and brain structure across the lifespan: A systematic review of large-scale neuroimaging studies.

ABSTRACT: Alcohol exposure affects brain structure, but the extent to which its effects differ across development remains unclear. Several countries are considering changes to recommended guidelines for alcohol consumption, so high-quality evidence is needed. Many studies have been conducted among small samples, but recent efforts have been made to acquire large samples to characterize alcohol's effects on the brain on a population level. Several large-scale consortia have acquired such samples, but this evidence has not been synthesized across the lifespan. We conducted a systematic review of large-scale neuroimaging studies examining effects of alcohol exposure on brain structure at multiple developmental stages. We included studies with an alcohol-exposed sample of at least N = 100 from the follo

SUBMITTER: Karoly HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11421948 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature