Lithium effects on adjunctive alcohol consumption. III: FT-shock as the inducing schedule.
Under conditions in which a mild shock (0.5 mA, 200 msec) was delivered, independently of the subject's behavior, every 90 sec (an FT 90-sec shock schedule), subjects receiving chronic lithium chloride in their drinking water (25 mEq/l), showed a rapid acquisition of an adjunctive alcohol consumption, while subjects in the control groups did not. Following termination of the FT-shock condition (extinction), subjects in all groups showed an increase in alcohol consumption, relative to both baseline and adjunctive levels.
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Department of Psychology, University of Arkansas, Little Rock 72204.
D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000523:psychology; D000818:Animals; D004597:Electroshock; D008094:Lithium / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000503:physiopathology*
D008094:Lithium