title: The paradoxical hedonic valence of acute ethanol withdrawal (hangover) states in rats: place and taste conditioning.
abstract: The hedonic valence of EtOH's delayed effects, usually referred to as "hangover," was assessed 18 h after a 4 g/kg injection using both place and taste learning tasks. In the place conditioning task two CS-,CS+ intervals were used (48 h and 144 h); within each treatment interval, experimentally induced "hangover" was paired with the initially nonpreferred conditioning compartment for half of the experimental group (N = 10 rats) and with the initially preferred conditioning compartment for the half (N = 10 rats). Saline injections were paired with placement in the alternate conditioning compartment. A third group (N = 10 rats) was conditioned with milliliter equivalent volumes of saline on both sides. A conditioned place preference was conditioned with the hangover state-induced interoceptive stimuli. Attempts were made to taste condition 24 rats with the interoceptive stimulus attributes of hangover. Experimentally induced hangover was associated with an adipsogenic state, defined as a significant decline in voluntary intake of both saccharin and water, which prevented taste conditioning.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City 73190-3000, USA.
authors.forename: D V
authors.initials: DV
authors.lastname: Gauvin
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Briscoe
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Baird
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vallett
authors.forename: F A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Holloway
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological / Q000187:drug effects*; D000431:Ethanol / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D013375:Substance Withdrawal Syndrome / Q000523:psychology*; D013649:Taste
chemical_list: D000431:Ethanol