FASD Ethanol Intake Associated w/ Social Anxiety in Offspring Exposed to Alcohol

Highlights

• Prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) alters social anxiety-like behavior.

• Social anxiety and ethanol intake are highly associated.

• PAE increases ethanol intake in adult male and female offspring.

• Ethanol intake is elevated in high socially anxious PAE males.

• Ethanol intake is elevated in PAE females, regardless of the social anxiety phenotype.