By C. J. Mahoney, S. Eisele, M. Capriolo (auth.), Gerald C. Ruppenthal, Dorothy J. Reese (eds.)

The child Primate learn Laboratory on the college of Washington used to be conceived in 1970 as a small examine Wlit essentially for help of 2 individual's pursuits in early improve­ ment of nonhuman primates. due to their learn emphasis, a modest nursery used to be required to help a small inhabitants of animals for particular experimental reports. The laboratory experi­ enced speedy progress while others on the collage got interested within the use of monkeys as types for early improvement and psychological retardation in people. In 1972 the Wlit used to be officially tested as a center facility of the kid improvement and psychological Retardation heart and the local Primate examine middle. This joint administrative and monetary aid allowed us to speculate significant attempt within the improvement of normative facts for rearing animals in our nursery in addition to for deciding on, documenting, and rearing topics at excessive danger for neonatal loss of life. As a part of that attempt, each test has been made to advertise a multidisciplinary method of ques­ tions linked to rearing nonhuman primates. This quantity contains a lot of the data therefore amassed. i think that such an strategy is vital to the advertising of medical rules in rearing and has allowed the laboratory to give a contribution to prima­ tology.

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Most manipulations produced changes in the offsprings' behavior; however, the specificity and directionality of the effects have not been consistent. Human studies have found that maternal anxiety during pregnancy can be related to obstetric complications (Grimm, 1961; McDonald and Christakos, 1963). In a retrospective study Stott (1957) found a higher incidence of various prenatal stresses-including illness, death in the immediate family and severe marital discord--in a group of mentally retarded offspring than in several control groups of normal offspring.

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