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New life sciences findings from Mental Health Center described

Published in Telemedicine Business Week, April 2nd, 2008

Current study results from the report, 'EEG correlates of imagery-induced cigarette craving in male and female smokers,' have been published. "Functional neuroimaging studies of cue-elicited craving in smokers have identified a distributed system of brain activation which includes the frontal cortex. As electroencephalographic (EEG) activity recorded from frontal brain regions indexes emotive functions, which are believed to play a key role in craving processes, this study examined frontal EEG in 20 cigarette smokers (10 male) exposed to imagery scripts containing positive, negative, or neutral affective content with and without descriptions of smoking urges," researchers in Ottawa, Canada...

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