Disruption of cigarette smoking addiction after posterior cingulate damage.
case_report · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.3171/2010.6.JNS10346.
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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.
Medical subject headings
- Behavior, Addictive
- Gyrus Cinguli
- Rupture, Spontaneous
- Smoking
- Smoking Cessation
- Stroke