Spatial and sustained attention in relation to smoking status: Behavioural performance and brain activation patterns

Journal of Psychopharmacology

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1485-1495

  Vossel, Simone ^a   Warbrick, Tracy ^a,b   Mobascher, Arian ^a,c   Winterer, Georg ^a,d   Fink, Gereon R ^a,e  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attentional networks; attentional reorienting; fMRI; nicotine; smoking; sustained attention

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; NICOTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPIRED AIR; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; SUSTAINED ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUOSPATIAL ATTENTION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; CARBON MONOXIDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NICOTINE; PARIETAL LOBE; PROSENCEPHALON; REACTION TIME; SMOKING; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 82955167562     PISSN: 02698811     EISSN: 14617285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269881110391830     Document Type: Article

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