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The effect of smoking on cognition as measured by Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CATNAB) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor plasma levels

Arwa Ali S. Al-Mshari, Mona H. AlSheikh, Rabia Latif and Sadaf Mumtaz
Saudi Medical Journal December 2020, 41 (12) 1308-1314; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.12.25513
Arwa Ali S. Al-Mshari
From the Department of Biomedical Sciences (Al-Mshari), College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa; from the Department of Physiology (AlSheikh, Latif), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Physiology (Mumtaz), Dental College, HITEC-Institute of Medical Sciences, Taxilla, Pakistan
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Mona H. AlSheikh
From the Department of Biomedical Sciences (Al-Mshari), College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa; from the Department of Physiology (AlSheikh, Latif), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Physiology (Mumtaz), Dental College, HITEC-Institute of Medical Sciences, Taxilla, Pakistan
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Rabia Latif
From the Department of Biomedical Sciences (Al-Mshari), College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa; from the Department of Physiology (AlSheikh, Latif), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Physiology (Mumtaz), Dental College, HITEC-Institute of Medical Sciences, Taxilla, Pakistan
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Sadaf Mumtaz
From the Department of Biomedical Sciences (Al-Mshari), College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa; from the Department of Physiology (AlSheikh, Latif), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Physiology (Mumtaz), Dental College, HITEC-Institute of Medical Sciences, Taxilla, Pakistan
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vol. 41 no. 12 1308-1314
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.12.25513
PubMed 
33294889

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received July 24, 2020
  • Accepted October 20, 2020
  • Published online December 1, 2020.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Arwa Ali S. Al-Mshari, MBBS, MSc,
  2. Mona H. AlSheikh, MBBS, PhD,
  3. Rabia Latif, MBBS, PhD and
  4. Sadaf Mumtaz, MBBS, PhD
  1. From the Department of Biomedical Sciences (Al-Mshari), College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa; from the Department of Physiology (AlSheikh, Latif), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Physiology (Mumtaz), Dental College, HITEC-Institute of Medical Sciences, Taxilla, Pakistan
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Mona H. AlSheikh, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: msheikh{at}iau.edu.sa ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-1969
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