Reward-related frontostriatal activity and smoking behavior among adolescents in treatment for smoking cessation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tobacco use is often initiated during adolescence and continued into adulthood despite desires to quit. A better understanding of the neural correlates of abstinence from smoking in adolescents may inform more effective smoking cessation interventions. Neural reward systems are implicated in tobacco use disorder, and adolescent smokers have shown reduced reward-related ventral striatal activation related to increased smoking.

Methods

The current study evaluated nondrug reward anticipation in adolescent smokers using a monetary incentive delay task in fMRI pre- and post- smoking cessation treatment (n=14). This study tested how changes in neural responses to reward anticipation pre- to post-treatment were related to reduced smoking. An exploratory analysis in a lar

SUBMITTER: Garrison KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5564393 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature