Mice are increasingly overtaking the rat model organism in important aspects of anxiety
research, including drug development. However, translating the results obtained in mouse …

While the majority of the regular consumers of alcohol controls their consumption well over
life span and even takes instrumentalization benefits from it, a minority, but yet high total …

In spite of widespread anecdotal and scientific evidence much remains to be understood
about the long-suspected connection between psychological factors and susceptibility to …

Alcohol dependence encompasses a serious medical and societal problem that constitutes
a major public health concern. A serious consequence of dependence is the emergence of …

Human studies indicate that high impulsivity, novelty seeking and anxiety predispose
individuals to alcohol abuse. Unclear, however, is whether the same phenotypes can be …

Drug addiction is a chronic neuropsychiatric disorder that escalates from an initial exposure
to drugs of abuse, such as cocaine, cannabis, or heroin, to compulsive drug-seeking and …

Psychiatric illnesses, such as anxiety, are highly comorbid with drug use disorders in
general and alcohol abuse in particular. Unfortunately, the causal role of anxiety in ethanol …

Stressful life events are causally linked with alcohol use disorders (AUDs), providing support
for a hypothesis that alcohol consumption is aimed at stress reduction. We have previously …

Background: Outcomes of neurobehavioral studies are invariably affected by the variations
in the anxiety traits of animals in the same species. Identifying those traits and categorizing …

Behavioral sensitization has been suggested to contribute to uncontrolled alcohol
consumption. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of repeated ethanol …