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McGill University

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Yellow/orange areas are regions where the thickness of the cortex at age 73 is associated with the amount of lifetime smoking; the greater the amount of lifetime smoking, the thinner the cortex.

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Credit: <i>Molecular Psychiatry</i>, S Karama, IJ Deary et al.

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