Open AccessAcute exercise modulates cigarette cravings and brain activation in response to smoking-related images: an fMRI study
Author(s) -
Kate Janse Van Rensburg,
Adrian Taylor,
Timothy L. Hodgson,
Abdelmalek Benattayallah
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
psychopharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.378
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1432-2072
pISSN - 0033-3158
DOI - 10.1007/s00213-008-1405-3
Subject(s) - nicotine , default mode network , functional magnetic resonance imaging , orbitofrontal cortex , supplementary motor area , psychology , abstinence , brain activity and meditation , audiology , smoking cessation , nicotine withdrawal , middle frontal gyrus , lingual gyrus , neuroscience , prefrontal cortex , medicine , psychiatry , electroencephalography , cognition , pathology
Substances of misuse (such as nicotine) are associated with increases in activation within the mesocorticolimbic brain system, a system thought to mediate the rewarding effects of drugs of abuse. Pharmacological treatments have been designed to reduce cigarette cravings during temporary abstinence. Exercise has been found to be an effective tool for controlling cigarette cravings.
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