“…A common finding in task-activated paradigms tapping response inhibition has been weaker connectivity in frontostriatal networks in alcoholics compared with controls (Courtney, Ghahremani, & Ray, 2013). In some instances, weaker connectivity was associated with a composite measure of alcoholism severity (Courtney et al, 2013), greater amounts of alcohol consumed over a lifetime (Schulte, Müller-Oehring, Sullivan, & Pfefferbaum, 2012), and length of sobriety (Dresler et al, 2011).…”