Belief about nicotine modulates subjective craving and insula activity in deprived smokers

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 7, Issue JUL, 2016, Pages

  Gu, Xiaosi ^a,b   Lohrenz, Terry ^c   Salas, Ramiro ^d   Baldwin, Philip R ^d   Soltani, Alireza ^e   Kirk, Ulrich ^f   Cinciripini, Paul M ^g   Montague, P Read ^a,c,h  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA TECH CARILION SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Dartmouth College   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^h VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief; Craving; fMRI; Insula; Interoception; Nicotine addiction

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ADULT; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; INSULA; INTEROCEPTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL TASK; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHARMACOLOGY; PREDICTION; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SMOKING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 84981506659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00126     Document Type: Article

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