Longstanding smoking associated with frontal brain lobe atrophy: a 32-year follow-up study in women.

Lena JohanssonXinxin GuoSimona SacuiuMadeleine Mellqvist FässbergSilke KernAnna ZettergrenIngmar Skoog

Published in: BMJ open (2023)

Longstanding tobacco smoking was mainly associated with atrophy in the frontal lobe cortex. A long-term stimulation of nicotine receptors in the frontal neural pathway might be harmful for targeted brain cell.

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