Predicting the amount of ethanol consumed per bout from schedule of access to ethanol |
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| Authors: | Henry Marcucella |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, Boston University, 64 Cummington St., 02215, Boston, MA
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| Abstract: | The present paper suggests that the difficulty in inducing animals to orally self-administer quantities of ethanol sufficient to produce dependence is related to the schedule of ethanol access. If the variables that control the various patterns of ethanol consumption can be identified, then the patterns of ethanol consumption leading to excessive intake and the development of dependence will be able to be identified and generated experimentally. Evidence is presented which shows that the amount of ethanol consumed per bout, the daily frequency of ethanol bouts, as well as the total amount of ethanol consumed, is a function of the frequency of ethanol access periods, feeding condition, ethanol concentration, and the temporal proximity of ethanol access periods. |
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