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SUBMITTER: Xiang S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10427673 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xiang Shitong S Jia Tianye T Xie Chao C Cheng Wei W Chaarani Bader B Banaschewski Tobias T Barker Gareth J GJ Bokde Arun L W ALW Büchel Christian C Desrivières Sylvane S Flor Herta H Grigis Antoine A Gowland Penny A PA Brühl Rüdiger R Martinot Jean-Luc JL Martinot Marie-Laure Paillère MP Nees Frauke F Orfanos Dimitri Papadopoulos DP Poustka Luise L Hohmann Sarah S Fröhner Juliane H JH Smolka Michael N MN Vaidya Nilakshi N Walter Henrik H Whelan Robert R Garavan Hugh H Schumann Gunter G Sahakian Barbara J BJ Robbins Trevor W TW Feng Jianfeng J
Nature communications 20230815 1
Smoking of cigarettes among young adolescents is a pressing public health issue. However, the neural mechanisms underlying smoking initiation and sustenance during adolescence, especially the potential causal interactions between altered brain development and smoking behaviour, remain elusive. Here, using large longitudinal adolescence imaging genetic cohorts, we identify associations between left ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) gray matter volume (GMV) and subsequent self-reported smokin ...[more]