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In male and female rats, compulsive alcohol drinking (alcohol+10mg/L quinine) is linked to lower broader-window MultiScale entropy, with the effect more pronounced in males.
- Why it matters: AUD shows strong individual and sex differences, and time-domain HRV measures may miss autonomic signatures tied to compulsive-like intake that persists despite negative consequences.
- What they did: Re-analyzed published rat heart-rate traces during alcohol-only versus alcohol+10mg/L quinine intake, computing non-linear Poincare ratio and MultiScale entropy plus spectral HF-HRV% over the first ~1100 beats (~2.5 minutes), then modeling patterns with PCA, OLS, and linear mixed models.
- The result: Lower Poincare ratio and higher HF-HRV% were overall associated with higher alcohol consumption, while compulsive drinking specifically showed reduced broader-window HRV entropy, suggesting HRV metric combinations may help distinguish general intake from compulsion.
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