Two-choice reaction time performance in Sprague-Dawley rats exposed to alcohol during adolescence or adulthood

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 605-614

  Slawecki, Craig J ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Adulthood; Anhedonia; Ethanol; Rat; Sustained attention

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANHEDONIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PERSEVERATION; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ETHANOL; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; REWARD; SUCROSE;

EID: 33749526853     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.fbp.0000236272.10418.62     Document Type: Article

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