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Disentangling craving- and valence-driven brain responses to smoking cues in individuals with nicotine use disorder

2020-08-11 addiction medicine Title + abstract only
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Tobacco smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable death and disease worldwide. Most smokers want to quit, but relapse rates are high. To improve current smoking cessation treatments, a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms of nicotine dependence and related craving behavior is needed. Studies on cue-driven cigarette craving have been a particularly useful tool for investigating the neural mechanisms of drug craving. Here, functional neuroimaging studies in humans have ident...

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