Prefrontal and frontal functional connectivity increases in current smokers versus non-smokers

Study of functional connectivity differences between current smokers and non-smokers demonstrates highly significant increases in cortico-cortical and cortical-subocritcal connectivity of prefrontal and frontal areas associated with nicotine-stimulated cholinergic pathways. Importantly, connectivity differences were elucidated based on multi-echo fMRI, for which seed-based functional connectivity is robust to motion artifact and associated type I errors in group comparisons.

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