Acute nicotine administration effects on fractional anisotropy of cerebral white matter and associated attention performance

• Main Authors: Peter eKochunov (Author), Michael eDu (Author), Lauren eMoran (Author), Hema eSampath (Author), Andrea eWijtenburg (Author), Yihong eYang (Author), Laura M Rowland (Author), Elliot eStein (Author), Elliott eHong (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2013-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction.Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are present in the cerebral white matter (WM). We hypothesized that WM response to nicotine can be detected by diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); and that such responses may be associated with nicotine-led cognitive enhancement in sustained attention. Meth...