Early-onset smoking theory of compulsivity development: a neurocognitive model for the development of compulsive tobacco smoking.
| Autor: | Conti AA; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London, United Kingdom.; Division of Population and Behavioral Science, University of St Andrews School of Medicine, St Andrews, United Kingdom., Baldacchino AM; Division of Population and Behavioral Science, University of St Andrews School of Medicine, St Andrews, United Kingdom. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in psychiatry [Front Psychiatry] 2023 Jul 13; Vol. 14, pp. 1209277. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jul 13 (Print Publication: 2023). |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1209277 |
| Abstrakt: | According to the literature, individuals who start tobacco smoking during adolescence are at greater risk of developing severe tobacco addiction and heavier smoking behavior in comparison with individuals who uptake tobacco smoking during subsequent developmental stages. As suggested by animal models, this may be related to the unique neuroadaptive and neurotoxic effects of nicotine on adolescents' fronto-striatal brain regions modulating cognitive control and impulsivity. Previous research has proposed that these neuroadaptive and neurotoxic effects may cause a heightened reward-oriented impulsive behavior that may foster smoking relapses during quit attempts. However, developments in the field of addiction neuroscience have proposed drug addiction to represent a type of compulsive behavior characterized by the persistent use of a particular drug despite evident adverse consequences. One brain region that has received increased attention in recent years and that has been proposed to play a central role in modulating such compulsive drug-seeking and using behavior is the insular cortex. Lesion studies have shown that structural damages in the insular cortex may disrupt smoking behavior, while neuroimaging studies reported lower gray matter volume in the anterior insular cortex of chronic smokers compared with non-smokers, in addition to correlations between gray matter volume in the anterior insular cortex and measures of compulsive cigarette smoking. Based on the findings of our recent study reporting on early-onset smokers (mean age at regular smoking initiation = 13.2 years) displaying lower gray matter and white matter volume in the anterior insular cortex compared to late-onset smokers (mean age at regular smoking initiation = 18.0 years), we propose that the anterior insular cortex may play a central role in mediating the association between smoking uptake during adolescence and smoking heaviness/tobacco addiction during adulthood. Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2023 Conti and Baldacchino.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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