An fMRI Study of Nicotine-Deprived Smokers' Reactivity to Smoking Cues during Novel/Exciting Activity

Engaging in novel/exciting (“self-expanding”) activities activates the mesolimbic dopamine pathway, a brain reward pathway also associated with the rewarding effects of nicotine. This suggests that self-expanding activities can potentially substitute for the reward from nicotine. We tested this mode...

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Autores principales: Xu, Xiaomeng, Aron, Arthur, Westmaas, J. Lee, Wang, Jin, Sweet, Lawrence H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3984235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24727905
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094598

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3984235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24727905
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094598

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