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Published on: August 6, 2013
Disruption of cigarette smoking addiction after posterior cingulate damage
Béchir Jarraya1, Pierre Brugières, Naoki Tani
1Department of Neurosurgery, Assitance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Groupe Henri-Mondor Albert-Chenevier, Univ Paris 12 UPEC, Faculté de Médecine, Créteil, France. bechir@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Abstract:
The authors describe the case of a 35-year-old woman with a history of an addiction to cigarette smoking who presented with an intracerebral hemorrhage from a ruptured arteriovenous malformation. The patient reported an immediate and complete disruption of her addiction to cigarette smoking following her stroke. Structural MR imaging revealed a lesion of the posterior cingulate cortex. Neuropsychological tests showed intact cognitive functioning. This observation suggests that the posterior cingulate cortex may play a role in the addiction to cigarette smoking.
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