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Science 24 February 1967:
Vol. 155. no. 3765, pp. 1030 - 1031
DOI: 10.1126/science.155.3765.1030
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Depression in Infant Monkeys Separated from Their Mothers

I. Charles Kaufman 1 and Leonard A. Rosenblum 1

1 Department of Psychiatry, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203

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.


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