Alcohol exposure in the womb affects 'teenage' booze behaviour
Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 16:28
in Psychology & Sociology
Rats whose mothers were fed alcohol during pregnancy are more attracted to the smell of liquor during puberty. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Behavioural and Brain Functions have shown that rats exposed during gestation find the smell of alcohol on another rat's breath during adolescence more attractive than animals with no prior foetal exposure...