Nicotine harms the pubescent brain
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 16:30
in Health & Medicine
Smoking at an early age can cause attention deficits in later life. Researchers at the Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam (part of VU University and its medical centre) have discovered a new mechanism that explains how exposure to nicotine at an early age can lead to brain damage. The research was jointly funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and was published as an advance online publication of the scientific journal Nature Neuroscience on Sunday 20 February.