Coping drinking motives, neural functional coupling during emotion processing, and alcohol use in young adults with bipolar disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rates of alcohol use disorders in individuals with bipolar disorder are 3 to 5 times greater than in the general population and exceed rates of alcohol use disorders reported in other affective and anxiety disorders. Despite this high rate of comorbidity, our understanding of the psychosocial and neural mechanisms that underlie the initiation of alcohol misuse in young adults with bipolar disorder remains limited. Prior work suggests that individuals with bipolar disorder may misuse alcohol as a coping mechanism, yet the neural correlates of coping drinking motives and associated alcohol use have not been previously investigated in this population.

Methods

Forty-eight young adults (22 bipolar disorder type I, 26 typically developing; 71% women; average age ± stand

SUBMITTER: Tretyak V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9478569 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature