TY  - JOUR
A1  - Isik, Ayse Ilkay
A1  - Naumer, Marcus Johannes
A1  - Kaiser, Jochen
A1  - Buschenlange, Christian
A1  - Wiesmann, Sandro
A1  - Czoschke, Stefan
A1  - Yalachkov, Yavor Vasilev
T1  - Automatized smoking-related action schemata are reflected by reduced fMRI activity in sensorimotor brain regions of smokers
T2  - NeuroImage: Clinical
N2  - In the later stages of addiction, automatized processes play a prominent role in guiding drug-seeking and drug-taking behavior. However, little is known about the neural correlates of automatized drug-taking skills and drug-related action knowledge in humans. We employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while smokers and non-smokers performed an orientation affordance task, where compatibility between the hand used for a behavioral response and the spatial orientation of a priming stimulus leads to shorter reaction times resulting from activation of the corresponding motor representations. While non-smokers exhibited this behavioral effect only for control objects, smokers showed the affordance effect for both control and smoking-related objects. Furthermore, smokers exhibited reduced fMRI activation for smoking-related as compared to control objects for compatible stimulus-response pairings in a sensorimotor brain network consisting of the right primary motor cortex, supplementary motor area, middle occipital gyrus, left fusiform gyrus and bilateral cingulate gyrus. In the incompatible condition, we found higher fMRI activation in smokers for smoking-related as compared to control objects in the right primary motor cortex, cingulate gyrus, and left fusiform gyrus. This suggests that the activation and performance of deeply embedded, automatized drug-taking schemata employ less brain resources. This might reduce the threshold for relapsing in individuals trying to abstain from smoking. In contrast, the interruption or modification of already triggered automatized action representations require increased neural resources.
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/45819
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-458194
SN  - 2213-1582
N1  - Under a Creative Commons license
VL  - 15
SP  - 753
EP  - 760
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - [Amsterdam u. a.]
ER  -