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Alcohol Preference Tests

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Alcohol (ethanol) choice tests; Alcohol (ethanol) drinking preference tests; Alcohol (ethanol) reinforcement tests; Alcohol (ethanol) reward tests

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Alcohol preference tests generally include a set of experimental procedures that allow assessment of the intake of alcohol-containing solutions by laboratory animals when there is also an availability of one or more solutions at the same time that do not contain any alcohol. Alcohol preference is measured as the amounts of the alcohol solution(s) consumed, relative to those of the nonalcoholic solution(s). Although this is the most commonly used procedure for studying alcohol preference, several related behavioral procedures have also been used to draw inferences about preference for alcohol. These other procedures are briefly described in the next section.

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Many behavioral procedures have been used to assess the effect of psychoactive drugs on ethanol preference in...

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  1. Department of Behavioral Neuroscience and Portland Alcohol Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd. L470, Portland, OR, 97239-3098, USA

    Christopher L. Cunningham & Melanie M. Pina

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  1. Christopher L. Cunningham
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Correspondence to Christopher L. Cunningham .

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  1. Section of Behavioural Pharmacology, King's College London Institute of Psychiatry P049, London, United Kingdom

    Ian P. Stolerman

  2. Brown Medical School, Butler Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

    Lawrence H. Price

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Cunningham, C.L., Pina, M.M. (2013). Alcohol Preference Tests. In: Stolerman, I., Price, L. (eds) Encyclopedia of Psychopharmacology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27772-6_32-2

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