Nicotine increases neural response to unpleasant stimuli and anxiety in non-smokers

Addiction Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 285-295

  Kobiella, Andrea ^a,b   Ulshöfer, Dorothea E ^b   Vollmert, Christian ^b   Bühler, Mira ^b   Esslinger, Christine ^b   Smolka, Michael N ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; emotion processing; fMRI; nicotine; non smokers; psychophysiological interaction

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULATION;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; SMOKING; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 79952496661     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2010.00237.x     Document Type: Article

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