Neonatal alcohol exposure impairs acquisition of eyeblink conditioned responses during discrimination learning and reversal in weanling rats

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 243-257

  Brown, Kevin L ^a   Calizo, Lyngine H ^a   Goodlett, Charles R ^b   Stanton, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Development; Discrimination reversal; Eyeblink conditioning; Long Evans rats; Neonatal alcohol

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT;

ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING, EYELID; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REVERSAL LEARNING; WEANING;

RATTUS;

EID: 34247340961     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20178     Document Type: Article

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