Altered risk-based decision making following adolescent alcohol use results from an imbalance in reinforcement learning in rats.

Alcohol use during adolescence has profound and enduring consequences on decision-making under risk. However, the fundamental psychological processes underlying these changes are unknown. Here, we show that alcohol use produces over-fast learning for better-than-expected, but not worse-than-expected...

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Main Authors: Jeremy J Clark, Nicholas A Nasrallah, Andrew S Hart, Anne L Collins, Ilene L Bernstein, Paul E M Phillips
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3353889?pdf=render