ArticleInternational journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology2009
Tobacco smoking produces widespread dominant brain wave alpha frequency increases.
Article in International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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- On the Physiological Modulation and Potential Mechanisms Underlying Parieto-Occipital Alpha Oscillations.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2018Review
- Tobacco Smoking and the Resting Maternal Brain: A Preliminary Study of Frontal EEG.The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2016Article
- Resting-state EEG, impulsiveness, and personality in daily and nondaily smokers.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2016Article
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Abstract
The major pharmacological ingredient in tobacco smoke is nicotine, a mild stimulant known to alter brain electrical activity. The objective of this study was to determine if tobacco smoking in humans produces localized or widespread neocortical dominant alpha electroencephalographic (EEG) frequency increases consistent with nicotine stimulation of the brainstem activating system in animals. Twenty-two male volunteer non-deprived tobacco smokers were studied. They were asked not to smoke for at least 1h before the experiment in mid-morning as part of their usual smoking schedule. In the laboratory, they sham smoked and then smoked their favorite tobacco cigarette. Two experimental sessions (#1 and #2) were conducted, separated by a one to two month interval. In both sessions, there were minor statistically significant increases in the dominant alpha frequencies after sham smoking. In both sessions, after the subjects smoked a favorite tobacco cigarette there was a significant generalized increase in dominant alpha EEG frequencies in most scalp recording sites. This study demonstrates that tobacco smoking produces widespread bilateral neocortical increases in dominant alpha EEG frequencies consistent with the stimulant effects of nicotine on the brainstem reticular activating system.
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