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Decreased brain connectivity in smoking contrasts with increased connectivity in drinking

  1. Wei Cheng  Is a corresponding author
  2. Edmund T Rolls  Is a corresponding author
  3. Trevor W Robbins
  4. Weikang Gong
  5. Zhaowen Liu
  6. Wujun Lv
  7. Jingnan Du
  8. Hongkai Wen
  9. Liang Ma
  10. Erin Burke Quinlan
  11. Hugh Garavan
  12. Eric Artiges
  13. Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos
  14. Michael N Smolka
  15. Gunter Schumann
  16. Keith Kendrick
  17. Jianfeng Feng  Is a corresponding author
  1. Fudan University, China
  2. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  3. Xidian University, China
  4. Shanghai University Finance and Economics, China
  5. University of Warwick, United Kingdom
  6. Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  7. King's College London, United Kingdom
  8. University of Vermont, United States
  9. University Paris Descartes, France
  10. Université Paris-Saclay, France
  11. Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
  12. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40765
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  1. Wei Cheng
  2. Edmund T Rolls
  3. Trevor W Robbins
  4. Weikang Gong
  5. Zhaowen Liu
  6. Wujun Lv
  7. Jingnan Du
  8. Hongkai Wen
  9. Liang Ma
  10. Erin Burke Quinlan
  11. Hugh Garavan
  12. Eric Artiges
  13. Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos
  14. Michael N Smolka
  15. Gunter Schumann
  16. Keith Kendrick
  17. Jianfeng Feng
(2019)
Decreased brain connectivity in smoking contrasts with increased connectivity in drinking
eLife 8:e40765.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40765
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Abstract

In a group of 831 participants from the general population in the Human Connectome Project, smokers exhibited low overall functional connectivity, and more specifically of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex which is associated with non-reward mechanisms, the adjacent inferior frontal gyrus, and the precuneus. Participants who drank a high amount had overall increases in resting state functional connectivity, and specific increases in reward-related systems including the medial orbitofrontal cortex and the cingulate cortex. Increased impulsivity was found in smokers, associated with decreased functional connectivity of the non-reward-related lateral orbitofrontal cortex; and increased impulsivity was found in high amount drinkers, associated with increased functional connectivity of the reward-related medial orbitofrontal cortex. The main findings were cross-validated in an independent longitudinal dataset with 1176 participants, IMAGEN. Further, the functional connectivities in 14-year-old non-smokers (and also in female low-drinkers) were related to who would smoke or drink at age 19. An implication is that these differences in brain functional connectivities play a role in smoking and drinking, together with other factors.

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  1. Wei Cheng

    Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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  2. Edmund T Rolls

    Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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    edmund.rolls@oxcns.org
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  3. Trevor W Robbins

    Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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  4. Weikang Gong

    Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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  5. Zhaowen Liu

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, China
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  6. Wujun Lv

    School of Mathematics, Shanghai University Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China
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  7. Jingnan Du

    Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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  8. Hongkai Wen

    Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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  9. Liang Ma

    Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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  10. Erin Burke Quinlan

    Centre for Population Neuroscience and Stratified Medicine (PONS), King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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  11. Hugh Garavan

    Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Vermont, United States
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  12. Eric Artiges

    Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, University Paris Descartes, Orsay, France
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  13. Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos

    NeuroSpin, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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  14. Michael N Smolka

    Department of Psychiatry, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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  15. Gunter Schumann

    Centre for Population Neuroscience and Stratified Medicine (PONS), King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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  16. Keith Kendrick

    Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation of the Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Center for Information in Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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  17. Jianfeng Feng

    Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (71661167002)

  • Jianfeng Feng

The Key Project of Shanghai Science & Technology Innovation Plan (16JC1420402)

  • Jianfeng Feng

National Natural Science Foundation of China (81701773)

  • Wei Cheng

Shanghai Sailing Program (17YF1426200)

  • Wei Cheng

Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (18ZR1404400)

  • Wei Cheng

The Key Project of Shanghai Science & Technology Innovation Plan (15JC1400101)

  • Jianfeng Feng

The Shanghai AI Platform for Diagnosis and Treatment of Brain Diseases (2016-17)

  • Jianfeng Feng

Base for Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities (B18015)

  • Jianfeng Feng

National Natural Science Foundation of China (91630314)

  • Jianfeng Feng

National Natural Science Foundation of China (11771010)

  • Wei Cheng

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Ethics

Human subjects: The WU-Minn HCP Consortium obtained full informed consent from all participants, and research procedures and ethical guidelines were followed in accordance with the Washington University Institutional Review Boards (IRB #201204036; Title: 'Mapping the Human Connectome: Structure, Function, and Heritability').

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© 2019, Cheng et al.

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  1. Wei Cheng
  2. Edmund T Rolls
  3. Trevor W Robbins
  4. Weikang Gong
  5. Zhaowen Liu
  6. Wujun Lv
  7. Jingnan Du
  8. Hongkai Wen
  9. Liang Ma
  10. Erin Burke Quinlan
  11. Hugh Garavan
  12. Eric Artiges
  13. Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos
  14. Michael N Smolka
  15. Gunter Schumann
  16. Keith Kendrick
  17. Jianfeng Feng
(2019)
Decreased brain connectivity in smoking contrasts with increased connectivity in drinking
eLife 8:e40765.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40765

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