Place Conditioning: What Does It Add to Our Understanding of Ethanol Reward ?

Authors

Fred O. Risinger, Oregon Health & Science UniversityFollow
Christopher L. Cunningham, Oregon Health & Science University School of MedicineFollow
Rick A. Bevins, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Frank A. Holloway, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

August 2002

Comments

Published in ALCOHOLISM: CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH VOL. 26, NO. 9 (SEPTEMBER 2002), pp. 1444-1451. Copyright © 2002 by the Research Society on Alcoholism. Used by permission. DOI: 10.1097/01.ALC.0000029582.19240.14

Abstract

This article describes the proceedings of a symposium at the 2001 RSA annual meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The cochairs were Fred O. Risinger and Christopher L. Cunningham. Presentations were as follows: (1) Place conditioning: understanding the motivational impact of stimuli, by Rick A. Bevins; (2) Role of historical factors in ethanol place conditioning, by Frank A. Holloway; (3) Ethanol place conditioning in mice: genetic and environmental infl uences, by Christopher L. Cunningham; and (4) Utilization of place conditioning for understanding the neuropharmacology of the rewarding effects of ethanol, by Fred O. Risinger.