About Alcoholism - Alcoholism Information, Research and Treatment

R. D. Myers of Purdue University's Laboratory of Neuropsychology reviewed his experiments which had demonstrated that the continual presence of a tiny volume of ethyl alcohol within the fluid of the cerebral ventricles of rats evoked a dramatic increase in preference for alcohol in direct relationship to the concentration of the infusate. When rhesus monkeys were used, 50% of those whose ventricles were perfused with 100 microliters every 15 minutes around the clock, drank sufficient ethanol so that they were unable to maintain their posture in the restraining chair.