Previous studies in the literature have several shortcomings. Specifically, most studies were cross-sectional (except Correas et al., 2016 and Peters et al., 2017), making it difficult the tease apart predisposing factors vs. potential consequences of binge drinking. To address this, the current study longitudinally assessed change in resting-state functional connectivity as a function of binge drinking. In addition, most studies on this topic used a seed-based method to assess functional connectivity, which has many limitations. Firstly, this method limits research replicability, as most researchers choose to focus on unique seeds and often do not attempt to replicate earlier results. Secondly, researchers also frequently choose a few seeds to represent the connectivity of a network, which can result in inconsistent findings. Therefore, in the current study, instead of choosing a small number of seeds, we used the Seitzman atlas (Seitzman et al., 2020), which included 300 seeds affiliated with 13 networks. We hypothesized that the relationship between binge drinking and functional connectivity will mirror connectivity abnormalities found in addiction, as outlined by Zilverstand and colleagues (2018). Therefore, we focused on the
