Early social isolation augments alcohol consumption in rats

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 26, Issue , 2015, Pages 673-680

  Lesscher, Heidi M B ^a   Spoelder, Marcia ^a   Rotte, Marthe D ^a   Janssen, Martijn J ^a   Hesseling, Peter ^a   Lozeman Van't Klooster, José G ^a   Baars, Annemarie M ^a   Vanderschuren, Louk J M J ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

addiction; alcohol; alcohol use disorder; rat; social isolation; social play behaviour

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL USE DISORDER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; ADDICTION; AGING; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION;

ALCOHOL; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGING; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ETHANOL; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 84942106214     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: 14735849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FBP.0000000000000165     Document Type: Article

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