The effect of alcoholization on the behavioral reactions of rats in an 8-arm radial maze

The influence of 20% alcohol consumption on training of low-active rats in 8-arm radial maze was studied. One group of animals was trained before and the other group after the alcoholization. All the animals acquired the conditioned reaction in the radial maze. However, the behavioral difference between the groups consisted in spatially-motor asymmetry. The rats trained before the alcohol consumption had less stereotyped behavior and more distinctly preferred to enter the maze arms at the angle of 45 degrees than the animals trained after the alcohol consumption. After the alcohol consumption, rats more frequently refused from behavioral task performance in comparison with the animals trained after the alcoholization. The influence of alcohol consumption of learning and memory in low-active rats is discussed.