Emotional processing and brain activity in youth at high risk for alcoholism.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Even in the absence of heavy alcohol use, youth with familial alcoholism (family history positive [FHP]) exhibit atypical brain functioning and behavior. Although emotional and cognitive systems are affected in alcohol use disorders (AUDs), little attention has focused on whether brain and behavior phenotypes related to the interplay between affective and executive functioning may be a premorbid risk factor for the development of AUDs in FHP youth.

Methods

Twenty-four FHP and 22 family history negative (FHN) 12- to 16-year-old adolescents completed study procedures. After exclusion of participants with clinically significant depressive symptoms and those who did not meet performance criteria during an Emotional Go-NoGo task, 19 FHP and 17 FHN youth were included i

SUBMITTER: Cservenka A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4867220 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature