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Altered neural dynamics in occipital cortices serving visual-spatial processing in heavy alcohol users.

Brandon J Lew¹, Alex I Wiesman¹, Michael T Rezich¹

¹Department of Neurological Sciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA.

Journal of Psychopharmacology (Oxford, England)

|July 24, 2019

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Heavy alcohol use is linked to visual-spatial deficits due to blunted alpha brainwave activity in occipital regions. This study reveals specific neural dynamics altered by excessive alcohol consumption affecting visual processing.

Keywords:

Alcohol alpha magnetoencephalography occipital oscillations visual-spatial

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Neuroscience
Neuroimaging
Alcohol Research

Background:

Heavy alcohol use is associated with visual-spatial processing deficits.
Neurological mechanisms underlying these deficits remain poorly understood.
Alcohol-related occipital cortex aberrations are implicated but neural dynamics are unknown.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the neural dynamics of visual-spatial processing in heavy alcohol users.
To compare brain activity between heavy alcohol users and controls during a visual-spatial task.

Main Methods:

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) was used to record brain activity in 23 heavy alcohol users and 30 controls during a visual-spatial task.
Data-driven methods identified time-frequency windows, and beamforming imaged spectrally-specific neural activity.
Statistical comparison of voxel time series was performed using permutation testing.

Main Results:

Heavy alcohol users exhibited slower and more variable performance on the visual-spatial task.
Both groups showed theta, alpha, and gamma responses in posterior regions.
Significant group differences revealed blunted alpha responses in the visual association cortices of heavy alcohol users.

Conclusions:

Heavy alcohol use is associated with aberrant occipital alpha activity during visual-spatial processing.
This study provides the first spectrally-specific neural evidence linking heavy alcohol use to altered visual-spatial processing.
Findings highlight alcohol's impact on systems-level neural activity affecting visual perception.