Acute nicotine administration effects on fractional anisotropy of cerebral white matter and associated attention performance

Frontiers in Pharmacology

Volumn 4 SEP, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kochunov, Peter ^a,b   Du, Xiaoming ^a   Moran, Lauren V ^a   Sampath, Hemalatha ^a   Andrea Wijtenburg, S ^a   Yang, Yihong ^c   Rowland, Laura M ^a   Stein, Elliot A ^c   Elliot Hong, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute change; Attention; Cognition; DTI FA; Nicotine; Processing speed; White matter

Indexed keywords

CHLORPROMAZINE; COTININE; NICOTINE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; COTININE BLOOD LEVEL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG HALF LIFE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPLICATION STUDY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SMOKING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84885348346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16639812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2013.00117     Document Type: Article

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