Alcohol Use Disorders: Tracts, Twins, and Trajectories
George F. Koob, Ph.D.
In this issue, two studies that use disparate methodologies have the potential to provide powerful leads into the etiology and diagnosis of alcohol use disorders. In a study by Squeglia et al. (1), heavy-drinking adolescents showed an accelerated gray matter reduction in the cortical lateral frontal and temporal lobes and attenuated white matter growth of the corpus callosum and pons relative to nondrinking control subjects.
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