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Nicotine Addiction: Collection IV (NIDA Notes): Article 1: Site on Brain Cells Appears Crucial to Nicotine Addiction Article 2: NIDA Research Illuminates Associations Between Psychiatric Disorders and Smoking Article 3: Nicotine Withdrawal Linked to Disrupted Glutamate Signaling Article 4: Smoking Exposure In Utero Increases Risk of Later Addiction

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About the Course

This course is based on four NIDA Notes articles. NIDA Notes is a large collection of brief, relevant articles focusing on current drug abuse treatment evidence.

Site on Brain Cells Appears Crucial to Nicotine Addiction tells how by using genetic engineering, NIDA-supported scientists have produced a strain of mice with special characteristics that can help researchers identify and study key steps in the development of nicotine addiction.

NIDA Research Illuminates Associations Between Psychiatric Disorders and Smoking describes how nearly half of all cigarettes sold in the United States are sold to people with mental illness, and men and women with mental disorders are twice as likely as the general population to smoke.

Nicotine Withdrawal Linked to Disrupted Glutamate Signaling explains how in recent animal studies, NIDA-supported scientists have identified sites on some brain cells that appear to be key promoters of the negative psychological symptoms of nicotine withdrawal.

Smoking Exposure in Utero Increases Risk of Later Addiction addresses how an expectant mother’s smoking during pregnancy does not increase the likelihood that her child will later try smoking or become a regular smoker.

All four articles are contained in one PDF.

This course is based on the reading-based online article, Nicotine Addiction: Collection IV (NIDA Notes): Article 1: Site on Brain Cells Appears Crucial to Nicotine Addiction Article 2: NIDA Research Illuminates Associations Between Psychiatric Disorders and Smoking Article 3: Nicotine Withdrawal Linked to Disrupted Glutamate Signaling Article 4: Smoking Exposure In Utero Increases Risk of Later Addiction created by Arnold Mann et al

Journal/Publisher

NIDA

Publication Date

August 2005, May 2005, and December 2004

Course Material Authors

Course Material Authors authored the material only, and were not involved in creating this CE course. They are identified here for your own evaluation of the relevancy of the material this course is based on.

Arnold Mann

Arnold Mann is a NIDA Notes contributing writer.

Patrick Zickler

Patrick Zickler is a NIDA Notes staff writer.

Course Creator

Dan Rebek, Ph.D.

Recommended For

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially addiction counselors, psychologists, mental health counselors, social workers, and nurses who seek knowledge about nicotine addiction, associations between psychiatric disorders and smoking, how nicotine withdrawal is linked to disrupted glutamate signaling, and how smoking exposure in utero increases risk of later addiction. It is appropriate for all levels of participants' knowledge.

Course Objectives:

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  1. Explain how a site on brain cells appears crucial to nicotine addiction.
  2. Identify the association between psychiatric disorders and smoking.
  3. Describe how nicotine withdrawal is linked to disputed glutamate signaling.
  4. Acknowledge that smoking exposure in utero increases risk of later addiction.

Availability

This course is available starting Nov 30th, 2009 and expires Apr 14th, 2019

Disclosure to Learners

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships

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Course Retired
Course Number 101635
  • 1 CE credit hour
  • NBCC: 0.75 CE credit hours

  • Reading-Based Online
Exam Fee $5.97
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