Adolescent Alcohol Consumption: Brain Health Outcomes

摘要: Adolescents consume alcohol in moderation mainly to enjoy and enhance mood but adolescents also drink hazardously, e.g. cope with stressful life events. Drinking hazardously may be related the developing adolescent brain going through a number of structural physiological changes. These changes affect behavior aimed at gaining experience life. Adolescent drinking patterns vary include risky behaviors such as binge drinking. Motivations risk factors for abuse are both internal external. Internal amongst others genetic predisposition have less self-control, whereas external includes early stress. Integrative approaches underline value multi-domain analysis prediction; any one feature isolation only modestly predicts behavior. Health consequences widely depending on dose pattern. Moderate associated lower incidence chronic disease mental health, binging appear negatively social functioning short term physical health long term. Resilience towards behaving non responsibly best prevent stimulate enjoyment moderate consumption. Limitations current knowledge concern interpretation being cause behavior, generalizability findings abusing general population insufficient relevant covariates mediators.