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- Title
An early attentional bias to BEGIN-stimuli of the smoking ritual is accompanied with mesocorticolimbic deactivations in smokers.
- Authors
Stippekohl, Bastian; Walter, Bertram; Winkler, Markus H; Mucha, Ronald F; Pauli, Paul; Vaitl, Dieter; Stark, Rudolf
- Abstract
Biased processing of drug-associated stimuli is believed to be a crucial feature of addiction. Particularly, an attentional bias seems to contribute to the disorder's maintenance. Recent studies suggest differential effects for stimuli associated with the beginning (BEGIN-smoking-stimuli) or the terminal stage of the smoking ritual (END-smoking-stimuli), with the former but not the later evoking high cue-reactivity.
- Publication
Psychopharmacology, 2012, Vol 222, Issue 4, p593
- ISSN
1432-2072
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00213-012-2670-8