Lifetime cigarette smoking is associated with striatal volume measures
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Das, Debjani; Cherbuin, Nicolas; Anstey, Kaarin; Sachdev, Perminder Singh; Easteal, Simon
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Nicotine, the primary addictive component of tobacco, affects the mammalian brain. Smokers’ brains have smaller cortical grey matter volumes and/or lower densities compared with non-smokers’. Differences in subcortical structures like the striatum are however, less clear. A high concentration of nicotinic receptors makes the striatum a potential target for nicotine. In addition, striatal nuclei are essential components of the reward/reinforcement pathway involved in addiction. The aim of this...[Show more]
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Date published: | 2011-03-11 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/10612 |
Source: | Addiction Biology 17.4 (2010): 817-825 |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2010.00301.x |
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