Effects of nicotine withdrawal on verbal working memory and associated brain response

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 69-74

  Sweet, Lawrence H ^a   Mulligan, Richard C ^a   Finnerty, Colleen E ^a   Jerskey, Beth A ^a   David, Sean P ^a   Cohen, Ronald A ^a   Niaura, Raymond S ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Default network; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; N Back paradigm

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; NICOTINE PATCH; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING CESSATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL MEMORY; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AFFECT; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 77953961971     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.04.014     Document Type: Article

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