Ventral striatum/nucleus accumbens activation to smoking-related pictorial cues in smokers and nonsmokers: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

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BACKGROUND: Converging evidence from several theories of the development of incentive-sensitization to smoking-related environmental stimuli suggests that the ventral striatum plays an important role in the processing of smoking-related cue reactivity. METHODS: Twenty-six healthy right-handed volunteers (14 smokers and 12 nonsmoking controls) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which neutral and smoking-related images were presented. Region of interest analyses were...

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Authors: David, S; Munafò, MR; Johansen-Berg, H; Smith, S; Rogers, R

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Biological psychiatry
• Volume: 58
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 488-494
• Publication date: 2005-09-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2005.04.028
• EISSN: 1873-2402
• ISSN: 0006-3223
• Language: English
• Keywords: Humans; Cues; Adult; Basal Ganglia; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Visual Perception; History, 21st Century; Oxygen; Nucleus Accumbens; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Tobacco Use Disorder; Brain Mapping; Female; Male