Decreased brain connectivity in smoking contrasts with increased connectivity in drinking

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Contributors

  • Wei Cheng - , Fudan University, University of Warwick (Author)
  • Edmund T. Rolls - , Fudan University, University of Warwick, University of Oxford (Author)
  • Trevor W. Robbins - , University of Cambridge (Author)
  • Weikang Gong - , Fudan University, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Author)
  • Zhaowen Liu - , Xidian University (Author)
  • Wujun Lv - , Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (Author)
  • Jingnan Du - , Fudan University (Author)
  • Hongkai Wen - , University of Warwick (Author)
  • Liang Ma - , CAS - Beijing Institute of Genomics (Author)
  • Erin Burke Quinlan - , King's College London (KCL) (Author)
  • Hugh Garavan - , University of Vermont (Author)
  • Eric Artiges - , INSERM - Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (Author)
  • Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos - , French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) (Author)
  • Michael N. Smolka - , Neuroimaging Center, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (Author)
  • Gunter Schumann - , King's College London (KCL) (Author)
  • Keith Kendrick - , University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Author)
  • Jianfeng Feng - , Fudan University, University of Warwick (Author)

Abstract

In a group of 831 participants from the general population in the Human Connectome Project, smokers exhibited low overall functional connectivity, and more specifically of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex which is associated with non-reward mechanisms, the adjacent inferior frontal gyrus, and the precuneus. Participants who drank a high amount had overall increases in resting state functional connectivity, and specific increases in reward-related systems including the medial orbitofrontal cortex and the cingulate cortex. Increased impulsivity was found in smokers, associated with decreased functional connectivity of the non-reward-related lateral orbitofrontal cortex; and increased impulsivity was found in high amount drinkers, associated with increased functional connectivity of the reward-related medial orbitofrontal cortex. The main findings were cross-validated in an independent longitudinal dataset with 1176 participants, IMAGEN. Further, the functional connectivities in 14-year-old non-smokers (and also in female low-drinkers) were related to who would smoke or drink at age 19. An implication is that these differences in brain functional connectivities play a role in smoking and drinking, together with other factors.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere40765
JournaleLife
Volume8
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

PubMed 30616717
ORCID /0000-0001-5398-5569/work/161890705