
02/04/2021
Heavy alcohol consumption produces 'deleterious' effects on adolescents' white matter
A new JAMA Psychiatry study shows the correlation between the integrity of brain white matter and heavy alcohol use among adolescents. Stanford Psychiatry's Qingyu Zhao, a co-author on the paper, appears in this Healio article.
Heavy alcohol consumption during adolescence appeared associated with deleterious effects on white matter microstructural integrity, according to results of a case-control study published in JAMA Psychiatry. “Widespread [fractional anisotropy] alteration has been observed in adolescents who in...