Emotional reactivity to emotional and smoking cues during smoking abstinence: potentiated startle and P300 suppression. Psychophysiology 2011 Dec;48(12):1656-68
Date
12/01/2011Pubmed ID
24015407Pubmed Central ID
PMC3772548DOI
10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01235.xScopus ID
2-s2.0-80755133274 22 CitationsAbstract
Negative affect is thought to be an important factor in the maintenance of cigarette smoking, and thus it is important to further develop objective measures of smoking-related emotional responses. Nonsmokers, non abstinent smokers, and abstinent smokers participated in a cue reactivity task where eyeblink startle amplitude and startle probe P300 (P3) suppression were measured during the presentation of emotional pictures.During unpleasant pictures, the amplitude of both measures was smaller in non abstinent smokers than in nonsmokers or abstinent smokers. P3 suppression, but not startle amplitude, was larger in abstinent smokers than in nonsmokers. Abstinence-induced increases in cigarette craving were associated with P3 suppression during tobacco-related pictures. Results suggest that tobacco abstinence increases emotional reactivity to unpleasant stimuli, which is consistent with negative reinforcement models of tobacco addiction.
Author List
Engelmann JM, Gewirtz JC, Cuthbert BNMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
BlinkingCues
Emotions
Humans
Smoking
Smoking Cessation
