PMID- 29446965 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20181211 LR - 20240216 IS - 1930-7810 (Electronic) IS - 0278-6133 (Print) IS - 0278-6133 (Linking) VI - 37 IP - 4 DP - 2018 Apr TI - Associations between coherent neural activity in the brain's value system during antismoking messages and reductions in smoking. PG - 375-384 LID - 10.1037/hea0000574 [doi] AB - OBJECTIVE: Worldwide, tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death and illness. One common strategy for reducing the prevalence of cigarette smoking and other health risk behaviors is the use of graphic warning labels (GWLs). This has led to widespread interest from the perspective of health psychology in understanding the mechanisms of GWL effectiveness. Here we investigated differences in how the brain responds to negative, graphic warning label-inspired antismoking ads and neutral control ads, and we probed how this response related to future behavior. METHOD: A group of smokers (N = 45) viewed GWL-inspired and control antismoking ads while undergoing fMRI, and their smoking behavior was assessed before and one month after the scan. We examined neural coherence between two regions in the brain's valuation network, the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and ventral striatum (VS). RESULTS: We found that greater neural coherence in the brain's valuation network during GWL ads (relative to control ads) preceded later smoking reduction. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that the integration of information about message value may be key for message influence. Understanding how the brain responds to health messaging and relates to future behavior could ultimately contribute to the design of effective messaging campaigns, as well as more broadly to theories of message effects and persuasion across domains. (PsycINFO Database Record CI - (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved). FAU - Cooper, Nicole AU - Cooper N AD - Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. FAU - Tompson, Steven AU - Tompson S AD - Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania. FAU - O'Donnell, Matthew B AU - O'Donnell MB AD - Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. FAU - Vettel, Jean M AU - Vettel JM AD - U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground. FAU - Bassett, Danielle S AU - Bassett DS AD - Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania. FAU - Falk, Emily B AU - Falk EB AD - Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. LA - eng GR - R01 NS099348/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 MH107235/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 DC009209/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/United States GR - R21 MH106799/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States GR - P50 CA179546/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 MH109520/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States GR - NH/NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 MH107703/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States GR - DP2 DA035156/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States GR - P50 CA101451/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HD086888/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 CA180015/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. DEP - 20180215 PL - United States TA - Health Psychol JT - Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association JID - 8211523 SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Brain/diagnostic imaging/*physiopathology MH - Female MH - Health Behavior/*physiology MH - Humans MH - Magnetic Resonance Imaging/*methods MH - Male MH - Smoking Cessation/*psychology MH - Smoking Prevention/*methods PMC - PMC5880700 MID - NIHMS937194 COIS- Competing interests: None EDAT- 2018/02/16 06:00 MHDA- 2018/12/12 06:00 PMCR- 2019/04/01 CRDT- 2018/02/16 06:00 PHST- 2018/02/16 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/12/12 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/02/16 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/04/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 2018-06017-001 [pii] AID - 10.1037/hea0000574 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Health Psychol. 2018 Apr;37(4):375-384. doi: 10.1037/hea0000574. Epub 2018 Feb 15.