Damage to various brain areas has also been observed in binge drinkers (Courtney and Polich, 2009; Squeglia et al., 2012; Petit et al., 2013). Especially, damage to the white matter in the prefrontal and temporal lobes and the corpus callosum has been observed in binge drinkers (McQueeny et al., 2009; Smith et al., 2017), suggesting possible impairment of FC among these areas in binge drinkers. However, some studies have indicated that BD in college students could cause FC changes even before anatomical changes occur (Correas et al., 2016; Sousa et al., 2019). For example, binge drinkers showed increased brain connectivity than the control group in the default mode network, even though no significant difference in the structural connectivity was observed between groups (Correas et al., 2016).
