Tao K

No ORCID on file · 1 paper in corpus

2026

Altered Regional Brain Activity Underlying the Higher Postoperative Analgesic Requirements in Abstinent Smokers: A Prospective Cohort Study.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience ·doi:10.1523/jneurosci.0109-25.2025

Perioperative abstinent smokers experience heightened pain sensitivity and increased postoperative analgesic requirements, likely due to nicotine withdrawal-induced hyperalgesia. However, the underlying neural mechanisms in humans remain un…