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The Protocol for: Do peers enhance alcohol use outcomes in group motivational interviewing? A translational clinical trial investigating brain synchrony in underage emerging adults during a fMRI hyperscanning task and its association with 12 month alcohol use reductions

2025-12-11 addiction medicine Title + abstract only
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Background and AimsAlcohol is the top substance used by US emerging adults under legal drinking age (underage emerging adults; U-EA; ages 18-19). U-EA are unlikely to seek or receive indicated alcohol interventions. It is imperative to find brief, effective interventions to reduce U-EA drinking. Developmental neuroscience reflects that peers hold higher neural salience during adolescence, as evidenced by differential neural response with real and/or simulated peers, even when those peers were no...

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