Topic: Ecological momentary assessment

Social drinking is one of the most common reasons for drinking among young people. Excessive alcohol consumption alters affective and reward brain function, and entails risks for mental health problems. To understand of the effect of early social drinking on real-life and neural reward functions is of particular importance. 378 community-based young healthy social drinkers (13 to 28 years) took part in a 7-day Ecological momentary assessment protocol using GPS-triggered smartphone-based e-dairies with 9 to 23 prompts per day to rate momentary affective well-being. Only self-identified current