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Brains of a feather flocking together? Peer and individual neurobehavioral risks for substance use across adolescence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2019

Jungmeen Kim-Spoon ,
Kirby Deater-Deckard ,
Alexis Brieant ,
Nina Lauharatanahirun ,
Jacob Lee  and
Brooks King-Casas
Jungmeen Kim-Spoon*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Kirby Deater-Deckard
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
Alexis Brieant
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Nina Lauharatanahirun
Affiliation:
U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, USA Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Jacob Lee
Affiliation:
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, Roanoke, VA, USA
Brooks King-Casas
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, Roanoke, VA, USA
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Author for Correspondence: Jungmeen Kim-Spoon, Ph.D., Department of Psychology (MC 0436), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, 24061, USA E-mail: jungmeen@vt.edu.
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Abstract

Adolescence is a period of heightened susceptibility to peer influences, and deviant peer affiliation has well-established implications for the development of psychopathology. However, little is known about the role of brain functions in pathways connecting peer contexts and health risk behaviors. We tested developmental cascade models to evaluate contributions of adolescent risk taking, peer influences, and neurobehavioral variables of risk processing and cognitive control to substance use among 167 adolescents who were assessed annually for four years. Risk taking at Time 1 was related to substance use at Time 4 indirectly through peer substance use at Time 2 and insular activation during risk processing at Time 3. Furthermore, neural cognitive control moderated these effects. Greater insular activation during risk processing was related to higher substance use for those with greater medial prefrontal cortex activation during cognitive control, but it was related to lower substance use among those with lower medial prefrontal cortex activation during cognitive control. Neural processes related to risk processing and cognitive control play a crucial role in the processes linking risk taking, peer substance use, and adolescents’ own substance use.

Keywords

cognitive controldeviant peer influencefMRIinsulasubstance use
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Development and Psychopathology , Volume 31 , Special Issue 5: Honoring the Contributions and Legacy of Thomas Dishion , December 2019 , pp. 1661 - 1674
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