Abstract
Young adult (N = 96) university students who varied in their binge drinking history were assessed by electroencephalography (EEG) recording during passive viewing. Groups consisted of male and female non-binge drinkers (>1 to 5/4 drinks/ounces in under two hours), low-binge drinkers (5/4–7/6 drinks/ounces in under two hours), and high-binge drinkers (≥ 10 drinks/ounces in under two hours), who had been drinking alcohol at their respective levels for an average of 3 years. The non- and low-binge drinkers exhibited less spectral power than the high-binge drinkers in the delta (0–4 Hz) and fast-beta (20–35 Hz) bands. Binge drinking appears to be associated with a specific pattern of brain electrical activity in young adults that may reflect the future development of alcoholism.
Highlights
Binge drinking is a social phenomenon with a high prevalence among undergraduate students
The present study was designed to characterize how binge drinking affects central nervous system (CNS) neuroelectric activity in male and female undergraduate participants who were carefully screened for the presence of covariates
The causal relationship between binge drinking and increased fast-beta power remains unclear, the alteration of fast-beta activity suggests that high-binge drinkers exhibit a similar EEG spectral pattern as alcoholics
Summary
Binge drinking is a social phenomenon with a high prevalence among undergraduate students. The. College Alcohol Study (CAS) found that for a sample of 140 colleges in the United States, 44% of the responding students were binge (≥5/4 successive drinks/ounces for males and females, respectively) drinkers [1]. Res. Public Health 2010, 7 binge drinking has not been used consistently, cognitive and behavioral studies generally have found frontal lobe and working memory deficits. The discrepancies between social and binge patterns of alcohol consumption imply that these results should be cautiously extrapolated to the binge drinking population. Other neurocognitive impairments such as deficits in the
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