Reposted by Christina Curran-Alfaro, PhD
New preprint from work led by @curranalfaro.bsky.social !
Tina looked at the impacts of chronic exposure to low-dose ethanol on brain and behavior and id'd altered cFos engagement in NAc circuits and sex specific effects on sensitivity to changes in reward value.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Sex Differences in Low-dose Ethanol Effects on Motivated Behavior and Limbic Corticostriatal Activity
Background: In 2023, the World Health Organization declared that there is no safe amount of alcohol consumption. It is becoming increasingly clear that even at lower doses, ethanol exposure impacts bo...
