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Advances in Psychological Science ›› 2017, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (11): 1932-1941.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1042.2017.01932

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 Episodic and background craving: Distinguishing pathway of caving effect on nicotine addition

 TONG Wei1; CHEN Taolin2; HUANG Xiaoqi2; GONG Qiyong2,3; FANG Xiaoyi1   

  1.  (1 Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China) (2 Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China) (3 Department of Sociality and Psychology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China)
  • Received:2017-01-19 Online:2017-11-15 Published:2017-09-25
  • Contact: CHEN Taolin, E-mail: tlchen@scu.edu.cn E-mail: E-mail: tlchen@scu.edu.cn
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Abstract:  A major of studies have found that craving plays critical role in nicotine dependence. Cue- exposure is the main paradigm to explore the relationships between nicotine and cravings. Some researchers, however, proposed that this paradigm could not distinguish the episodic and background craving. Consequently, the exact mechanism of craving has not been illustrated clearly. By review of previous studies about craving, we proposed that there exist both similarities and differences between the episodic and background cravings in neural mechanism. More researches should focus on how to separate and identify these two kinds of craving.

Key words: nicotine dependence, smoking, craving, cue-induced, conditioned reflex theory, reward circuit, brain imaging

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