Long-Term Effects of Chronic Intermittent Ethanol Exposure in Adolescent and Adult Rats: Radial-Arm Maze Performance and Operant Food Reinforced Responding

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Risher, Mary Louise ^a,b   Fleming, Rebekah L ^a,b   Boutros, Nathalie ^d   Semenova, Svetlana ^d   Wilson, Wilkie A ^c   Levin, Edward D ^a   Markou, Athina ^d   Swartzwelder, H Scott ^a,b   Acheson, Shawn K ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; EXPOSURE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPERANT FOOD REINFORCED RESPONDING; RADIAL ARM MAZE; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ETHANOL; FOOD; HUMANS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REWARD; TIME;

EID: 84877655222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062940     Document Type: Article

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