ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2015
Blunted striatal responses to favorite-food cues in smokers.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Shared gray matter alterations in subtypes of addiction: a voxel-wise meta-analysis.Psychopharmacology · 2021Pooled it
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- Persistent appetitive memory in problematic pornography users.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2026Article
- Positive Emotion Regulation in Addiction: A New Frontier for Recovery Science.Current addiction reports · 2026Review
- Salient cue reactivity and eating behaviors in ex-smokers, abstinent alcohol use disorder, and obesity.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Outcome assessment of different reward stimuli in Internet gaming disorder by event-related potentials.PloS one · 2024Article
- Testing the efficacy of real-time fMRI neurofeedback for training people who smoke daily to upregulate neural responses to nondrug rewards.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Neuroimaging and neuroendocrine insights into food cravings and appetite interventions in obesity.Psychoradiology · 2023Review
- Tobacco consumption in Chilean university students and associations with anthropometry, eating habits and sleep quality multicentric study.Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2021Article
- Food craving, cortisol and ghrelin responses in modeling highly palatable snack intake in the laboratory.Physiology & behavior · 2019Article
- Neuroimaging of reward mechanisms in Gambling disorder: an integrative review.Molecular psychiatry · 2019Review
- Tobacco Smoking, Eating Behaviors, and Body Weight: A Review.Current addiction reports · 2019Article
- Neurobiological Considerations for Tobacco Use Disorder.Current behavioral neuroscience reports · 2018Article
- Neural substrates of cue reactivity and craving in gambling disorder.Translational psychiatry · 2017Article
- Functional Connectivity During Exposure to Favorite-Food, Stress, and Neutral-Relaxing Imagery Differs Between Smokers and Nonsmokers.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundAlthough tobacco-smoking is associated with relatively leaner body mass and smoking cessation with weight gain, the brain mechanisms underlying these relationships are not well understood. Smokers compared to non-smokers have shown diminished neural responses to non-tobacco rewarding stimuli (e.g., monetary rewards), but brain responses to favorite-food cues have not been investigated relative to smoking status. We hypothesized that smokers would exhibit diminished neural responses compared to non-smokers in response to favorite-food cues in motivation-reward and emotion-regulating regions of the brain.
methodsTwenty-three smokers and 23 non-smokers matched based on body mass index (BMI), age, and gender listened to personalized favorite-food cue, stress, and neutral-relaxing audiotapes during fMRI.
resultsDuring favorite-food cue exposure, smokers versus non-smokers exhibited diminished activations in the caudate, putamen, insula, and thalamus. Neural responses during stress and neutral-relaxing conditions were similar across groups. Subjective food-craving ratings were similar across groups.
conclusionsThe relatively diminished neural responses to favorite-food cues in smokers may contribute to lower BMI.
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