Long-term effects of chronic intermittent ethanol exposure in adolescent and adult rats: radial-arm maze performance and operant food reinforced responding.

Adolescence is not only a critical period of late-stage neurological development in humans, but is also a period in which ethanol consumption is often at its highest. Given the prevalence of ethanol use during this vulnerable developmental period we assessed the long-term effects of chronic intermit...

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Main Authors: Mary-Louise Risher, Rebekah L Fleming, Nathalie Boutros, Svetlana Semenova, Wilkie A Wilson, Edward D Levin, Athina Markou, H Scott Swartzwelder, Shawn K Acheson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3652810?pdf=render