Effects of Chronic Intermittent Ethanol Exposure on Orbitofrontal and Medial Prefrontal Cortex-Dependent Behaviors in Mice

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 879-891

  Badanich, Kimberly A ^a   Becker, Howard C ^a   Woodward, John J ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol dependence; Attention set shifting; Behavioral flexibility; Reversal learning; Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOLISM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPOSURE; HABITUATION; INHALATION; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; ETHANOL; FRONTAL LOBE; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REVERSAL LEARNING; TEMPERANCE;

EID: 83055188717     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025922     Document Type: Article

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