Daily and Intermittent Smoking Decrease Gray Matter Volume and Concentrations of Glutamate, Creatine, Myo-Inositol and N-acetylaspartate in the Prefrontal Cortex
Paul Faulkner, Susanna Lucini Paioni, Petya Kozhuharova, Natasza D. Orlov, David J. Lythgoe, Yusuf Daniju, Elenor Morgenroth, Holly Barker, Paul Allen
This study shows that both daily and intermittent smoking reduce glutamate and other metabolite concentrations and gray matter volume in the prefrontal cortex, with no difference between smoking types.
Addiction Biology · Dec 3, 2020Peer-reviewedNeuroscience