Neural Basis of Smoking-Related Difficulties in Emotion Regulation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Negative emotional states contribute to cigarette smoking, and difficulties in regulating these states can hinder smoking cessation. Understanding the neural bases of these difficulties in smokers may facilitate development of novel therapies for Tobacco Use Disorder.

Methods

Thirty-seven participants (18 smokers, 19 nonsmokers; 16-21 years old) completed the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), which is comprised of 6 subscales (lack of emotional clarity, lack of emotional awareness, limited access to emotion regulation strategies, nonacceptance of emotional responses, difficulties engaging in goal-directed behaviors, and impulse control difficulties) that combine to provide a total score. Participants also underwent functional magnetic resonance imag

SUBMITTER: Faulkner P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7387763 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature