Adolescent Rearing Conditions Influence the Relationship Between Initial Anxiety‐Like Behavior and Ethanol Drinking in Male Long Evans Rats

Abstract

These data further support the validity of the rodent juvenile social isolation model for studies directed at elucidating behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms linking anxiety and EtOH drinking. These findings further suggest that housing conditions commonly employed in rodent drinking studies may recapitulate the anxiety-like and EtOH-drinking phenotype engendered by a juvenile social isolation procedure.