Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9378096 | Biological Psychiatry | 2005 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Adolescent daily tobacco smokers experience acute impairments of verbal memory and working memory after smoking cessation, along with chronic decrements in cognitive performance that are consistent with preclinical evidence that neurotoxic effects of nicotine are more severe when exposure to nicotine occurs at earlier periods in development.
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Authors
Leslie K. Jacobsen, John H. Krystal, W. Einar Mencl, Michael Westerveld, Stephen J. Frost, Kenneth R. Pugh,