Trauma’s distinctive and combined effects on subsequent substance use, mental health, and neurocognitive functioning with the NCANDA sample
- UNCW Author/Contributor (non-UNCW co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Dr.. Kate Nooner, Professor & Senior Associate Dean (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW )
- Web Site: http://library.uncw.edu/
Abstract: Purpose: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and potentially traumatic events (PTEs) contribute to increased substance use, mental health issues, and cognitive impairments. However, there's not enough research on how TBI and PTEs combined impact mental heath, substance use, and neurocognition. Methods: This study leverages a subset of The National Consortium on Alcohol and Neurodevelopment in Adolescence (NCANDA) multi-site dataset with 551 adolescents to assess the combined and distinctive impacts of TBI, PTEs, and TBI+PTEs (prior to age 18) on substance use, mental health, and neurocognitive outcomes at age 18. Results: TBI, PTEs, and TBI+PTEs predicted greater lifetime substance use and past-year alcohol and cannabis use. PTEs predicted greater internalizing symptoms, while TBI+PTEs predicted greater externalizing symptoms. Varying effects on neurocognitive outcomes included PTEs influencing attention accuracy and TBI+PTEs predicting faster speed in emotion tasks. PTEs predicted greater accuracy in abstraction-related tasks. Associations with working memory were not detected. Conclusion: This exploratory study contributes to the growing literature on the complex interplay between TBI, PTEs, and adolescent mental health, substance use, and neurocognition. The developmental implications of trauma via TBIs and/or PTEs during adolescence are considerable and worthy of further investigation.
Trauma’s distinctive and combined effects on subsequent substance use, mental health, and neurocognitive functioning with the NCANDA sample
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- Publication
- Patel, H., Nooner, K. B., Reich, J. C., Woodley, M. M. O., Cummins, K., & Brown, S. A. (2024). Trauma’s distinctive and combined effects on subsequent substance use, mental health, and neurocognitive functioning with the NCANDA sample. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 69, 101427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101427
- Language: English
- Date: 2024
- Keywords
- Traumatic brain injury, Adverse childhood experiences, Alcohol, Substance use, Neurocognition, Mental health, Cannabis