ArticleBiological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging2019
Low Smoking Exposure, the Adolescent Brain, and the Modulating Role of CHRNA5 Polymorphisms.
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- Advancing Biomarkers for Treatment of Smoking and Nicotine Dependence: An Overview.Addiction neuroscience · 2023Article
- Consequences of adolescent drug use.Translational psychiatry · 2023Review
- The absence of association between anorexia nervosa and smoking: converging evidence across two studies.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
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- The Genetically Informed Neurobiology of Addiction (GINA) model.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2023Review
- Mutation of the α5 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit increases ethanol and nicotine consumption in adolescence and impacts adult drug consumption.Neuropharmacology · 2022Article
- Association of PolymorphismInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Features of Nicotine-Dependent Individuals and Its Correlation with Polymorphisms of Dopamine D Receptor Gene.Contrast media & molecular imaging · 2022Article
- Linking the CHRNA5 SNP to drug abuse liability: From circuitry to cellular mechanisms.Neuropharmacology · 2021Review
- Adolescent Substance Use and the Brain: Behavioral, Cognitive and Neuroimaging Correlates.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundStudying the neural consequences of tobacco smoking during adolescence, including those associated with early light use, may help expose the mechanisms that underlie the transition from initial use to nicotine dependence in adulthood. However, only a few studies in adolescents exist, and they include small samples. In addition, the neural mechanism, if one exists, that links nicotinic receptor genes to smoking behavior in adolescents is still unknown.
methodsStructural and diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging data were acquired from a large sample of 14-year-old adolescents who completed an extensive battery of neuropsychological, clinical, personality, and drug-use assessments. Additional assessments were conducted at 16 years of age.
resultsExposure to smoking in adolescents, even at low doses, is linked to volume changes in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and to altered neuronal connectivity in the corpus callosum. The longitudinal analyses strongly suggest that these effects are not preexisting conditions in those who progress to smoking. There was a genetic contribution wherein the volume reduction effects were magnified in smokers who were carriers of the high-risk genotype of the alpha 5 nicotinic receptor subunit gene, rs16969968.
conclusionsThese findings give insight into a mechanism involving genes, brain structure, and connectivity underlying why some adolescents find nicotine especially addictive.
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