This review analyses the most relevant studies in which ethanol intake was measured after
prenatal exposure to the drug. Despite the variety in methodology, in most such studies this …

The motivational effects of drugs play a key role during the transition from casual use to
abuse and dependence. Ethanol reinforcement has been successfully studied through …

Prenatal alcohol exposure has been found to be an important factor determining later
consumption of this drug. In humans, despite the considerable diversity of variables that …

While appetitive reinforcement effects of ethanol are easily detected in rat neonates, such
phenomena rarely have been observed in older infants. Recently, Molina et al.[Molina, JC …

Background: Prenatal exposure to moderate ethanol doses during late gestation modifies
postnatal ethanol palatability and ingestion. The use of Pavlovian associative procedures …

The present study examined behavioral sensitivity and acute tolerance to ethanol in infants
with or without a moderate prenatal ethanol experience. During gestational days 17–20 …

The present study tested the involvement of the opioid system in the acquisition and
expression of prenatal ethanol-related memories. We evaluated how this prenatal …

Background: Recent experimental findings indicate that newborn rats are quite susceptible
to the reinforcing properties of ethanol (EtOH). The basis seems to be more pharmacological …

The opioid system modulates ethanol intake and reinforcement in adult and preweanling
rodents. While adult heterogeneous rats normally do not show ethanol-mediated locomotor …

Exposure to ethanol during the last days of gestation (1 or 2/kg) has been shown to induce
greater ethanol intake as well as enhanced ethanol palatability in infant rats compared to …