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Schedule-induced ethanol polydipsia in rats with restricted fluid availability

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Spaced feeding of individual food pellets to food-deprived rats at 1-min intervals caused excessive drinking of 5 and 10% alcohol solutions, even though the solutions were available for only a 10-sec portion of each interval and even though the portion of availability occurred anywhere in the interval unpredictably from one interval to another. Thus schedule-induced ethanol polydipsia is not necessarily a post-reinforcement phenomenon.

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The diligent assistance of Marilyn Schwieder is gratefully acknowledged.

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Gilbert, R.M. Schedule-induced ethanol polydipsia in rats with restricted fluid availability. Psychopharmacologia 38, 151–157 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00426109

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