Acetylcholine and attention

I Klinkenberg, A Sambeth, A Blokland - Behavioural brain research, 2011 - Elsevier
Historically, ACh has been implicated in learning and short-term memory functions.
However, more recent studies have provided support for a role of cortical ACh in attentional …

[HTML][HTML] Dual role of nicotine in addiction and cognition: a review of neuroimaging studies in humans

AJ Jasinska, T Zorick, AL Brody, EA Stein - Neuropharmacology, 2014 - Elsevier
Substantial evidence demonstrates both nicotine's addiction liability and its cognition-
enhancing effects. However, the neurobiological mechanisms underlying nicotine's impact …

Response perseveration and ventral prefrontal sensitivity to reward and punishment in male problem gamblers and smokers

MB De Ruiter, DJ Veltman, AE Goudriaan… - …, 2009 - nature.com
Pathological gambling (PG) is associated with maladaptive perseverative behavior, but the
underlying mechanism and neural circuitry is not completely clear. Here, the hypothesis was …

Nicotinic α7 receptors enhance NMDA cognitive circuits in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

Y Yang, CD Paspalas, LE Jin… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The cognitive function of the highly evolved dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) is greatly
influenced by arousal state, and is gravely afflicted in disorders such as schizophrenia …

Cognitive function during nicotine withdrawal: Implications for nicotine dependence treatment

RL Ashare, M Falcone, C Lerman - Neuropharmacology, 2014 - Elsevier
Nicotine withdrawal is associated with deficits in neurocognitive function including sustained
attention, working memory, and response inhibition. Several convergent lines of evidence …

Functional brain abnormalities are related to clinical recovery and time to return-to-play in athletes

MR Lovell, JE Pardini, J Welling, MW Collins… - …, 2007 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVE: The relationship between athlete reports of symptoms, neurophysiological
activation, and neuropsychological functioning is investigated in a sample of high school …

Differences in “bottom-up” and “top-down” neural activity in current and former cigarette smokers: evidence for neural substrates which may promote nicotine …

L Nestor, E McCabe, J Jones, L Clancy, H Garavan - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
Drug-related stimuli, through conditioning, are thought to acquire incentive motivational
properties that code possible reward availability and elicit an attentional bias, possibly …

[HTML][HTML] Cholinergic modulation of cognition: insights from human pharmacological functional neuroimaging

P Bentley, J Driver, RJ Dolan - Progress in neurobiology, 2011 - Elsevier
Evidence from lesion and cortical-slice studies implicate the neocortical cholinergic system
in the modulation of sensory, attentional and memory processing. In this review we consider …

Transcranial direct current stimulation reduces negative affect but not cigarette craving in overnight abstinent smokers

J Xu, F Fregni, AL Brody, AS Rahman - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can enhance cognitive control functions
including attention and top-down regulation over negative affect and substance craving in …

Performance effects of nicotine during selective attention, divided attention, and simple stimulus detection: an fMRI study

B Hahn, TJ Ross, FA Wolkenberg, DM Shakleya… - Cerebral …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Attention-enhancing effects of nicotine appear to depend on the nature of the attentional
function. Underlying neuroanatomical mechanisms, too, may vary depending on the function …