Adolescent development of inhibitory control and substance use vulnerability: A longitudinal neuroimaging study

Previous research indicates that risk for substance use is associated with poor inhibitory control. However, it remains unclear whether at-risk youth follow divergent patterns of inhibitory control development. As part of the longitudinal National Consortium on Adolescent Neurodevelopment and Alcoho...

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Main Authors: Alina Quach, Brenden Tervo-Clemmens, William Foran, Finnegan J. Calabro, Tammy Chung, Duncan B. Clark, Beatriz Luna
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Published: Elsevier 2020-04-01
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author Alina Quach
Brenden Tervo-Clemmens
William Foran
Finnegan J. Calabro
Tammy Chung
Duncan B. Clark
Beatriz Luna
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Brenden Tervo-Clemmens
William Foran
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Beatriz Luna
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description Previous research indicates that risk for substance use is associated with poor inhibitory control. However, it remains unclear whether at-risk youth follow divergent patterns of inhibitory control development. As part of the longitudinal National Consortium on Adolescent Neurodevelopment and Alcohol study, participants (N = 113, baseline age: 12–21) completed a rewarded antisaccade task during fMRI, with up to three time points. We examined whether substance use risk factors, including psychopathology (externalizing, internalizing) and family history of substance use disorder, were associated with developmental differences in inhibitory control performance and BOLD activation. Among the examined substance use risk factors, only externalizing psychopathology exhibited developmental differences in inhibitory control performance, where higher scores were associated with lower correct response rates (p = .013) and shorter latencies (p < .001) in early adolescence that normalized by late adolescence. Neuroimaging results revealed higher externalizing scores were associated with developmentally-stable hypo-activation in the left middle frontal gyrus (p < .05 corrected), but divergent developmental patterns of posterior parietal cortex activation (p < .05 corrected). These findings suggest that early adolescence may be a unique period of substance use vulnerability via cognitive and phenotypic disinhibition.
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spelling doaj.art-af6390fe1fa547309ab666becab6862d2022-12-22T00:08:57ZengElsevierDevelopmental Cognitive Neuroscience1878-92932020-04-0142Adolescent development of inhibitory control and substance use vulnerability: A longitudinal neuroimaging studyAlina Quach0Brenden Tervo-Clemmens1William Foran2Finnegan J. Calabro3Tammy Chung4Duncan B. Clark5Beatriz Luna6Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesDepartment of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; Corresponding author at: Laboratory of Neurocognitive Development, Department of Psychology, Center for Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh, Loeffler Building, 121 Meyran Ave., Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States.Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesCenter for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesDepartment of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesPrevious research indicates that risk for substance use is associated with poor inhibitory control. However, it remains unclear whether at-risk youth follow divergent patterns of inhibitory control development. As part of the longitudinal National Consortium on Adolescent Neurodevelopment and Alcohol study, participants (N = 113, baseline age: 12–21) completed a rewarded antisaccade task during fMRI, with up to three time points. We examined whether substance use risk factors, including psychopathology (externalizing, internalizing) and family history of substance use disorder, were associated with developmental differences in inhibitory control performance and BOLD activation. Among the examined substance use risk factors, only externalizing psychopathology exhibited developmental differences in inhibitory control performance, where higher scores were associated with lower correct response rates (p = .013) and shorter latencies (p < .001) in early adolescence that normalized by late adolescence. Neuroimaging results revealed higher externalizing scores were associated with developmentally-stable hypo-activation in the left middle frontal gyrus (p < .05 corrected), but divergent developmental patterns of posterior parietal cortex activation (p < .05 corrected). These findings suggest that early adolescence may be a unique period of substance use vulnerability via cognitive and phenotypic disinhibition.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929320300190AdolescenceSubstance use riskExternalizing psychopathologyInhibitory controlfMRILongitudinal
spellingShingle Alina Quach
Brenden Tervo-Clemmens
William Foran
Finnegan J. Calabro
Tammy Chung
Duncan B. Clark
Beatriz Luna
Adolescent development of inhibitory control and substance use vulnerability: A longitudinal neuroimaging study
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Adolescence
Substance use risk
Externalizing psychopathology
Inhibitory control
fMRI
Longitudinal
title Adolescent development of inhibitory control and substance use vulnerability: A longitudinal neuroimaging study
title_full Adolescent development of inhibitory control and substance use vulnerability: A longitudinal neuroimaging study
title_fullStr Adolescent development of inhibitory control and substance use vulnerability: A longitudinal neuroimaging study
title_full_unstemmed Adolescent development of inhibitory control and substance use vulnerability: A longitudinal neuroimaging study
title_short Adolescent development of inhibitory control and substance use vulnerability: A longitudinal neuroimaging study
title_sort adolescent development of inhibitory control and substance use vulnerability a longitudinal neuroimaging study
topic Adolescence
Substance use risk
Externalizing psychopathology
Inhibitory control
fMRI
Longitudinal
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929320300190
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