MRI findings indicate that smoking is linked to reduced brain volume, raising concerns about dementia risk, especially with ...

Smoking is notorious for causing damage to the lungs — but a recent study confirmed that it’s also harmful to the brain. Researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine (WashUMed ...

Chain smoking can have a big impact on many of our brain’s cognitive functions. “Smoking accelerates brain ageing by damaging blood vessels and increasing oxidative stress,” explains Allder.

ATLANTA - Smoking damages the heart and lungs, researchers have warned for years, but a new study shows it may also be negatively impacting the brain. Dr. Laura Bierut, an Alumni Endowed professor ...

Not only does smoking destroy the heart and lungs, it also shrinks the brain, according to researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

However, while there can be few today who are unaware of the toll smoking takes on the body, the effects of long-term tobacco smoking on other areas such as learning and memory are less well known.

Based on previous studies, smoking seems to account for at least one third of all cases of subarachnoid hemorrhage, and women suffer bleeding in the brain almost twice as often as men, the authors ...

Smoking is said by some to be the hardest addiction to break, and certain people might benefit from brain stimulation to quit, French researchers suggest.

They discovered that the more severe the tobacco habit, the greater the brain injury. “In smoking alcohol-dependent individuals, smaller regional [brain] volumes are related to greater ...

Smoking Linked To Brain Damage Date: June 23, 2009 Source: Wiley - Blackwell Summary: New research suggests a direct link between smoking and brain damage. Scientists have found that a compound in ...

Thirteen of the insula-damaged patients had quit smoking, with 12 of them quitting within a day of the brain injury and neither smoking nor even feeling the urge since then.