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Effects of Tobacco Smoking on the Topographic Eeg-I
Abstract
Outlines a study done on four groups of subjects who were smoke deprived overnight. Finds all cigarettes produced an increase in total alpha, cigarettes containing nicotine produced a decrease in alpha1 and an increase in alpha2.
Fields
- Author
- Gullotta, Frank Paul, Ph.D. (Tobacco chemist, Philip Morris, Cologne, Germany '94)Developed and used EEG techniques to study relationship between nicotine addiction and blend properties. Worked moved off-shore in 1986 to avoid discovery.
- Hypothesis
- Smoking psychology and behavior
- Neurobiology
- Keyword
- Electrophysiology
- Named Organization
- Prog Neuropsychopharm
- Technology/Method
- EEG
- Subject
- CNS/Brain (Effects)
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Domin", E.F., Matsuoka, S.,
Effects of tobacco smoking on the topographic EEG-I,
Prog. Neuro-Psychopharm. 16 (4): 879-889 (1994)
4 groups of subjects who were overnight smoke-deprived
Cigarettes
(nic. mg/cig.) N
0 6
0.27 7
2.0 10
2.16 5
All cigarettes produced increase in total alpha.
Only smoking nicotine-containing cigarettes produced a decrease in alpha, (8 to 9.8 hz) and
an increase in alpha2 (10 to 11.8 Hz).
No consistent changes in delta, theta, or beta.
n
Note: small .. and high variability
