Brain Development in Heavy-Drinking Adolescents
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Brain development in heavy-drinking adolescents.
OBJECTIVE Heavy alcohol use during adolescence may alter the trajectory of normal brain development. The authors measured within-subject changes in regional brain morphometry over longer intervals and in larger samples of adolescents than previously reported and assessed differences between adolescents who remained nondrinkers and those who drank heavily during adolescence as well as difference...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0002-953X,1535-7228
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.14101249