date:Jan 25, 2019
, especially in the reward-related area of the brain.
The findings, published in British biomedicine journal eLife, showed the low functional connectivity is between two brain regions, namely the lateral orbitofrontal cortex and inferior frontal gyrus.
Weaker connection involving the two regions may, make people more impulsive and less able to resist smoking, according to the research.
Conversely, those who drink alcohol had high overall functional connectivity, specifically linked to reward-