Thayer et al. (2013). This sample comprised an ethnically and socio-economically diverse sample of high risk, justice-involved adolescents ages 14–18 (n = 125) divided in groups by hazardous drinking symptoms via the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT). Youth were either AU (defined as youth with high AUDIT scores; n = 74 or non-AU (defined as youth with low AUDIT scores; n = 51). AU youth had lower FA than non-AU youth across the right and left posterior corona radiata and the right superior longitudinal fasciculus. In contrast to previous work, AU youth (versus non-AU youth) had higher FA in the right anterior corona radiata. No group differences in MD were found. This study provides further evidence for a relatively lower pattern of FA for AU youth.
