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February's Hot Paper!

Association of Nicotine Addiction and Nicotine’s Actions With Separate Cingulate Cortex Functional Circuits

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2009;66(4):431-441

Understanding the mechanisms underlying nicotine addiction to develop more effective treatment is a public health priority. Research consistently shows that nicotine transiently improves multiple cognitive functions. However, using nicotine replacement to treat nicotine addiction yields generally inconsistent results....

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