Damage to the insula enables some smokers to quit easily and without relapse, reports a recent paper. The lesion may disrupt a a representation of internal bodily urges that is normally cued by learned drug associations.
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Dani, J., Montague, P. Disrupting addiction through the loss of drug-associated internal states. Nat Neurosci 10, 403–404 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0407-403
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