... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Preproenkephalin Anorexia nervosa Depressive symptoms Anxious symptoms Obsessive-compulsive symptoms Stress Nicotine Smoking Peripheral blood mononuclear cells Real...

... affects certain aspects of motivation and that both tobacco smoking and cannabis use lead to similar motivational changes. However, the use of cannabis seems to affect motivation in a stronger way than does tobacco smoking alone. 12 12 2008 23 06 2009 21 9 2009 © 2009 S. Karger AG...

... experienced during smoking cessation. The current investigation examined the relationship of BMI and various indices of mood in a sample of male and female cigarette smokers undergoing cessation. Methods: Along with baseline assessments of variables such as depression and anxiety, total mood disturbance...

...Marianne Littel; Ingmar H.A. Franken; Jan W. Van Strien Aims: To investigate the changes in the electroencephalographic (EEG) spectrum in smokers during exposure to a neutral and a smoking-related cue to determine whether these EEG changes are still present in ex-smokers after prolonged abstinence...

...Verner J. Knott; Luma Naccache; Emmanuelle Cyr; Derek J. Fisher; Judy F. McIntosh; Anne M. Millar; Crystal M. Villeneuve Background/Aims: Cigarette craving is a core symptom of smoking withdrawal, which is more intense and more frequently observed in smokers with depressed mood. Using self-reports...

...Vikram K. Yeragani; Robert Pohl; Richard Balon; C. Ramesh; Debra Glitz; Paul Sherwood Supine and standing heart rate (HR) and blood pressure measures were compared among 19 nonsmoking normal controls, 29 smoking patients and 36 nonsmoking patients with panic disorder. The smoking patients had...

...Walter S. Pritchard; John H. Robinson; Thomas D. Guy; Riley A. Davis; Mitchell F. Stiles Thirty-two subjects were tested in five double-blind sessions – 16 subjects in the morning (a.m.) following overnight smoking abstention, and 16 in the afternoon (p.m.) following ad lib smoking. In each session...

...Verner J. Knott; Anne Harr As neuroelectric research into the smoking/nicotine habit has focused exclusively on young and middle-aged adults, this electroencephalographic (EEG) study was conducted to determine whether a long-term smoking history alters the aging brain and/or whether the aging brain...

...Neil Sherwood A double-blind study was conducted to investigate the psychomotor effects of cigarette smoking on a 1-hour computer-based simulation of driving comprising continuous tracking and brake reaction time tasks. Twelve minimally abstinent smoker subjects were asked to operate the simulator...

...Ch. Michel; R. Buzzi; P.P. Woodson; K. Bättig The present study relates subject-paced rapid information processing to different components of event-related brain potentials in an attempt to gain more information about changes in mental performance in relation to alveolar smoke absorption...

...Kieron O’Connor Motor potentials associated with a motor task and with the initiation of the smoking act were recorded from two groups of 5 introverted and 5 extraverted smokers during sham and real smoking sessions on two separate occasions. The aim was to test hypotheses derived by O’Connor from...

...Verner J. Knott Electroencephalograms were monitored before, during and after smoking a single cigarette. Quantitative analysis indicated that smoking produced a characteristic psychostimulant profile involving power reductions in delta and theta and increases in both alpha power and peak alpha...

...Russell T. Joffe; Anthony J. Levitt The effect of cigarette smoking on thyroid function tests was evaluated in 82 patients with major depression. Smokers had significantly lower measures of thyroxine than non-smokers. The implications of these findings are discussed. 20 2 2008 © 1988 S...

...Verner J. Knott Quantitative regional electroencephalographic (EEG) effects of cigarette smoking were examined within a repeated measures design which assessed, and topographically displayed, changes in power spectral estimates resulting from the smoking of low, medium and high tar/nicotine (T/N...

...Verner J. Knott Previous research had indicated that the smoking of medium tar and nicotine (T/N) yield cigarettes produced a psychostimulant action on electroencephalographic (EEG) activity which was apparent after a single cigarette and was evident as early as the fourth puff. The present study...

...Verner Knott; Crystal Blais; Carole Scherling; Jordan Camarda; Anne Millar; Derek Fisher; Judy McIntosh Acute nicotine has been found to improve task performance in smokers after smoking abstinence, but the attentional processes mediating these improvements are unclear. Since scalp-recorded event...

...Ding-Lieh Liao; Jen-Yi Yang; Shin-Min Lee; Hong Chen; Shih-Jen Tsai Objective: This study investigated the prevalence of smoking and its association with the clinical characteristics of Chinese inpatients with chronic schizophrenia. Method: Schizophrenic patients hospitalized in chronic wards were...

...Michael Houlihan; Walter Pritchard; John Robinson Smoking generally affects the human EEG by reducing low-frequency activity and increasing higher-frequency activity. Using a double-blind design, we sought to determine if acute tolerance (tachyphylaxis) to this effect can be observed. EEG...

...Darlene Walker; Colleen Mahoney; Vadim Ilivitsky; Verner J. Knott This study examined the role of dopamine in modulating the CNS response to cigarette smoking. In a randomized, double-blind, repeated-measures design, quantitative electroencephalographic (EEG) changes and self-reports induced...

...Verner J. Knott; Anne Harr; Vadim Ilivitsky; Colleen Mahoney Acute quantitative electroencephalographic effects of cigarette smoking were examined in 15 smokers within a repeated-measures design which assessed changes in power-spectral estimates following acute pre-treatment with placebo, a dose...