Ethanol-Metrecal diets: II. Failure to obtain impaired performance on a series of appetitively and aversively motivated tasks.
Rats were chronically maintained on ethanol-Metrecal diets where either 37%, 41%, 49% or 57% of the total kilocalories were derived from ethanol. In three experiments animals were tested on a series of problems (passive avoidance, shuttle avoidance, simultaneous and successive discrimination, and complex spatial maze learning) 6 to 8 weeks after the diet had been withdrawn. There was no evidence that chronic ethanol regimes impaired either learning or memory processes.
D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology; D000818:Animals; D001362:Avoidance Learning; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D002149:Energy Intake; D005106:Exploratory Behavior; D005260:Female; D005526:Food, Formulated; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains