Our finding from the network-level analysis was consistent with studies reported the association between binge drinking and abnormal connectivity of the DMN (Correas et al., 2016) and the VAN (Herman et al., 2019). The association between binge drinking and DMN connectivity is consistent with what has been reported in the addiction literature (Zhang and Volkow, 2019; Zilverstand et al., 2018). For instance, quantitative meta-analyses have showed that activation in the ACC – a key structure of the DMN – was associated with drug cue onset (Kühn and Gallinat, 2011; Wilson and Sayette, 2015) and self-reported craving (Kühn and Gallinat, 2011). Similarly, resting-state connectivity within the DMN has also been reported to correlate with self-reported craving (Li et al., 2016) and degree of relapse (Li et al., 2015). DMN is often thought to have an anti-correlated association with networks subserving effortful cognitive processing such as VAN, with the former being task-negative and the latter being task-positive (Raichle, 2015). Herman and colleagues (2019) reported the association between binge drinking and VAN connectivity, and given the role of VAN in bottom-up, stimulus-driven attention
