Abstract: This is a PhD thesis that investigated how chronic ethanol consumption by rats, followed by 2 months of abstinence,affected the functional connectivity of several pathways in the hippocampus. The techniques entailed field potential electrophysiology in anesthetized animals, which was used to investigate basal synaptic transmission, short-term plasticity and long-term potentiaton. Connectivity patterns were assessed using current source density analyses of depth profile data. The findings have been published as 4 papers in 1981, 1982, 1984. Dissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "An Electrophysiological Analysis of Chronic Ethanol Effects on Synaptic Distribution and Function in Rat Hippocampus" by Wickliffe Carson Abraham, was obtained from the University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A free digital copy of this work may also be found in the university's institutional repository, the IR@UF. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation.