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Adolescent alcohol exposure and persistence of adolescent-typical phenotypes into adulthood: a mini-review.
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews - 1 Sept 2014
Spear Linda Patia, Swartzwelder H Scott
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Alcohol use is typically initiated during adolescence, which, along with young adulthood, is a vulnerable period for the onset of high-risk drinking and alcohol abuse. Given across-species commonalities in certain fundamental neurobehavioral characteristics of adolescence, studies in laboratory animals such as the rat have proved useful to assess persisting consequences of repeated alcohol exposure. Despite...
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