In human adolescents, females often report drinking for coping reasons to avoid negative
affective states. We have shown previously that adolescent female rats with elevated levels …

Adolescence is a sensitive developmental period during which alcohol use is often initiated
and consumed in high quantities, often at binge or even high-intensity drinking levels. Our …

Binge drinking during adolescence can have behavioral and neurobiological
consequences. We have previously found that adolescent intermittent ethanol (AIE) …

Background Alcohol use during adolescence can alter maturational changes that occur in
brain regions associated with social and emotional responding. Our previous studies have …

The study assessed possible age differences in brain activation patterns to low dose ethanol
(. 5 g/kg intraperitoneally) and the influence of social context on this activation. Early …

Recent findings from our laboratory indicate that alterations in frontal cortex function,
structural plasticity, and related social behaviors are persistent consequences of exposure to …

Objectives To investigate if SM and BP offspring infant mice exhibit differential sensitivity to
ethanol-induced locomotor activity and differential activity patterns in brain areas related to …

Adolescents exhibit, when compared to adults, altered responsivity to the unconditional
effects of ethanol. It is unclear if this has a role in the excessive ethanol intake of …

Motives related to the enhancement of the positive effects of alcohol on social activity within
sexes are strongly associated with alcohol use disorder and are a major contributor to …

Ontogenetic studies using a social interaction paradigm have shown that adolescent rats are
less sensitive to anxiolytic properties of acute ethanol than their adult counterparts. It is not …