Altered spontaneous brain activity in chronic smokers revealed by fractional ramplitude of low-frequency fluctuation analysis: a preliminary study

Abstract Although a substantial body of previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have revealed different brain responses to external stimuli in chronic cigarette smokers compared with nonsmokers, only a few studies assessed brain spontaneous activity in the resting state in chro...

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Main Authors: Chao Wang, Zhujing Shen, Peiyu Huang, Hualiang Yu, Wei Qian, Xiaojun Guan, Quanquan Gu, Yihong Yang, Minming Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-03-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00463-7