NPY and Anxiety: Activation of Y1 receptor into BNST-AL reduced alcohol consumption in C57BL/6J mice exposed to the “drinking in the dark” model of binge-like alcohol drinking (Pleil et al., 2015): this effect was not accompanied by changes in anxiety-like and locomotor behaviors, suggestive of the specificity of NPY effect on binge-like alcohol drinking (Pleil et al., 2015).