Association between vmPFC gray matter volume and smoking initiation in adolescents

Abstract Smoking of cigarettes among young adolescents is a pressing public health issue. However, the neural mechanisms underlying smoking initiation and sustenance during adolescence, especially the potential causal interactions between altered brain development and smoking behaviour, remain elusi...

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Main Authors: Shitong Xiang, Tianye Jia, Chao Xie, Wei Cheng, Bader Chaarani, Tobias Banaschewski, Gareth J. Barker, Arun L. W. Bokde, Christian Büchel, Sylvane Desrivières, Herta Flor, Antoine Grigis, Penny A. Gowland, Rüdiger Brühl, Jean-Luc Martinot, Marie-Laure Paillère Martinot, Frauke Nees, Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos, Luise Poustka, Sarah Hohmann, Juliane H. Fröhner, Michael N. Smolka, Nilakshi Vaidya, Henrik Walter, Robert Whelan, Hugh Garavan, Gunter Schumann, Barbara J. Sahakian, Trevor W. Robbins, Jianfeng Feng, IMAGEN Consortium
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40079-2