New York: According to a recent study, the more certain a person is about the intensity of a drug, the more the drug will affect his mind.
Xiaosi Gu, a senior researcher and associate professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, said the research aims to add to the evidence about the effects of drug addiction on people’s thinking and brain activity. Had to find out. The results showed a high level of correlation between the two.
For the study, the team of researchers recruited a group of people and gave them e-cigarettes, each with a different amount of nicotine while the amount was the same for all.
Brain responses to smoking were tracked in all participants. Brain scans showed that the thalamus, the main nicotine binding site in the brain, took the intensity of smoking differently in each person and responded accordingly.
The aforementioned research was recently published in the journal Nature Mental Health.
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