A pilot study of transdermal nicotine effects on facial emotion responding in non-smoking healthy controls and individuals with schizophrenia: Feasibility and effect size estimates

Alexander C Conley; Kimberly M Albert; Kristan Armstrong; Jodie V Johnson; William R Kem; Paul A Newhouse; Alan S Lewis

doi:10.1016/j.schres.2022.10.018

A pilot study of transdermal nicotine effects on facial emotion responding in non-smoking healthy controls and individuals with schizophrenia: Feasibility and effect size estimates

Schizophr Res. 2022 Dec:250:89-91. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2022.10.018. Epub 2022 Nov 11.

Authors

Alexander C Conley¹, Kimberly M Albert², Kristan Armstrong³, Jodie V Johnson⁴, William R Kem⁵, Paul A Newhouse⁶, Alan S Lewis⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1601 23rd Ave South, Nashville, TN 37212, USA; Center for Cognitive Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1601 23rd Ave South, Nashville, TN 37212, USA. Electronic address: alexander.c.conley@vumc.org.
² Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1601 23rd Ave South, Nashville, TN 37212, USA; Center for Cognitive Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1601 23rd Ave South, Nashville, TN 37212, USA. Electronic address: kimberly.albert@vumc.org.
³ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1601 23rd Ave South, Nashville, TN 37212, USA. Electronic address: kristan.armstrong@vumc.org.
⁴ Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, PO Box 117200, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. Electronic address: jvj@chem.ufl.edu.
⁵ Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, 1200 Newell Drive, ARB R5-234, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA. Electronic address: wrkem@UFL.EDU.
⁶ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1601 23rd Ave South, Nashville, TN 37212, USA; Center for Cognitive Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1601 23rd Ave South, Nashville, TN 37212, USA; Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, 1310 24th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37212, USA. Electronic address: paul.newhouse@vumc.org.
⁷ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1601 23rd Ave South, Nashville, TN 37212, USA; Center for Cognitive Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1601 23rd Ave South, Nashville, TN 37212, USA. Electronic address: alan.s.lewis@vumc.org.

No abstract available

Keywords: Attention; Emotion; Healthy controls; Inhibition; Nicotine; Schizophrenia.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Emotions
Facial Expression
Humans
Nicotine
Nicotinic Agonists / therapeutic use
Pilot Projects
Schizophrenia* / drug therapy
Schizophrenic Psychology

Substances

Nicotine
Nicotinic Agonists

Publication types

MeSH terms

Substances

Grants and funding