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Gender-specific effects of prenatal and adolescent exposure to tobacco smoke on auditory and visual attention

Jacobsen, Leslie K, Slotkin, Theodore A, Mencl, W Einar, Frost, Stephen J, Pugh, Kenneth R·2007·Neuropsychopharmacology

Abstract

Prenatal exposure to active maternal tobacco smoking elevates risk of cognitive and auditory processing deficits, and of smoking in offspring. Recent preclinical work has demonstrated a sex-specific pattern of reduction in cortical cholinergic markers following prenatal, adolescent, or combined prenatal and adolescent exposure to nicotine, the primary psychoactive component of tobacco smoke. Given the importance of cortical cholinergic neurotransmission to attentional function, we examined auditory and visual selective and divided attention in 181 male and female adolescent smokers and nonsmokers with and without prenatal exposure to maternal smoking. Groups did not differ in age, educational attainment, symptoms of inattention, or years of parent education. A subset of 63 subjects also underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging while performing an auditory and visual selective and divided attention task. Among females, exposure to tobacco smoke during prenatal or adolescent development was associated with reductions in auditory and visual attention performance accuracy that were greatest in female smokers with prenatal exposure (combined exposure). Among males, combined exposure was associated with marked deficits in auditory attention, suggesting greater vulnerability of neurocircuitry supporting auditory attention to insult stemming from developmental exposure to tobacco smoke in males. Activation of brain regions that support auditory attention was greater in adolescents with prenatal or adolescent exposure to tobacco smoke relative to adolescents with neither prenatal nor adolescent exposure to tobacco smoke. These findings extend earlier preclinical work and suggest that, in humans, prenatal and adolescent exposure to nicotine exerts gender-specific deleterious effects on auditory and visual attention, with concomitant alterations in the efficiency of neurocircuitry supporting auditory attention.

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Authors
Jacobsen, L. K., Slotkin, T. A., Mencl, W. E., Frost, S. J., & Pugh, K. R.
Affiliations
  • Haskins Laboratories (US)
  • Duke Medical Center (US)
Corresponding author
Jacobsen, Leslie K
Venue
Neuropsychopharmacology
Published
2007-03-21
Volume
32
Issue
12
Pages
2453-2464
ISSN
  • 0893-133X (ISSN-L)
  • 1740-634X
OpenAlex
W2136763318
Cited by
144
References
75
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FWCI
14.27
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Neuropsychopharmacology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA017333, R01DA017333, DA 14655, R01DA014655)
  • National Center for Research Resources (RR06022)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study
Keywords
prenatal tobacco exposure, nicotine, sex differences, auditory attention, visual attention, selective attention, divided attention, brain activation, neurocircuitry, maternal smoking
MeSH terms
Acoustic Stimulation, Adolescent, Attention, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Oxygen, Photic Stimulation, Pregnancy, Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects, Sex Characteristics, Smoking, Nicotiana

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