Cigarette smoking and thinning of the brain's cortex

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 778-785

  Karama, S ^a,b   Ducharme, S ^a,c,d   Corley, J ^e   Chouinard Decorte, F ^a   Starr, J M ^e   Wardlaw, J M ^e   Bastin, M E ^e   Deary, I J ^e  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; BRAIN MAPPING; COHORT ANALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

NICOTINE;

AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NICOTINE; SMOKING;

EID: 84929945715     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: 14765578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mp.2014.187     Document Type: Article

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