Open AccessSmoke and mirrors: The overnight abstinence paradigm as an index of disrupted cognitive function
Author(s) -
Jessica D. Rhodes,
Larry W. Hawk
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
psychopharmacology/psychopharmacologia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.378
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1432-2072
pISSN - 0033-3158
DOI - 10.1007/s00213-016-4227-8
Subject(s) - abstinence , cognition , trait , psychology , smoking cessation , clinical psychology , psychiatry , developmental psychology , medicine , pathology , computer science , programming language
Smoking abstinence is known to cause decrements in cognition, but the effects are small and variable. One way to reduce variance may be to aggregate measures or visits. Although trait-like individual differences in smoking abstinence effects on cognition are theorized to predict relapse, the test-retest reliability (TRR) assumed in trait models has not been evaluated.