The maturing adolescent brain has been suggested to be more sensitive than the adult brain to ethanol-induced neuroadaptations. In animal studies, sensitization to the stimulant effects of ethanol is used to study the vulnerability to chronic ethanol-induced neurobehavioral alterations.
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Quoilin, C., Didone, V., Tirelli, E., & Quertemont, E. (2012). Developmental differences in ethanol-induced sensitization using postweanling, adolescent, and adult Swiss mice. Psychopharmacology, 219(4), 1165-1177. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-011-2453-7 (Original work published 2011)