An animal model for type 2 alcoholism? Alcohol consumption and aggressive behavior following lesions in the raphe nuclei, medial hypothalamus, or ventral striatum-septal area

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1125-1135

  Bergvall, Åsa H ^a   Fahlke, Claudia ^a   Hansen, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aggression; Alcohol drinking; Hyperreactivity; Medial hypothalamus; Raphe nuclei; Ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID;

AGGRESSION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPHE NUCLEUS; RAT; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM;

EID: 0030271942     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(96)00169-2     Document Type: Article

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