Depression in Infant Monkeys Separated from Their Mothers
- 24 February 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 155 (3765) , 1030-1031
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.155.3765.1030
Abstract
The mothers of four pigtail ( Macaca nemestrina ) infants living in a group were removed for 4 weeks. All infants reacted initially with agitation. Three of the four infants then became severely depressed. The depression lasted about a week and was strikingly similar to the "anaclitic depression" of human infants who lost their mothers. When they were reunited, all four dyads showed a marked and prolonged intensification of the mother-infant relationship.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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