Name of Project: Nicotine Withdrawal, Smoking,
and Cognition: An fMRI Study
Principal Investigator: Edythe London, Ph.D.
Funding Agency: National Institute on Drug Abuse
(NIDA)
Funding Period: September 2001-April 2004.
Scope of Project: The major goal of this project
is to determine the effects
of smoking history and condition on brain function
performance of the N-Back and Stroop tasks. This project
uses functional imaging by fMRI to understand the
changes in attention and working memory that have been
detected in smokers as a function of abstinence and
satiety. Thirty-six subjects have completed the study.
For more information, contact Edythe
London.
Last updated - 06/29/2003