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Nonhuman primate models of depression: effects of early experience and stress.
ILAR journal - 1 Jan 2014
Worlein Julie M
Abstract excerpt
Depression causes significant morbidity in the human population. The Diathesis-Stress/Two-Hit model of depression hypothesizes that stress interacts with underlying (probably genetic) predispositions to produce a central nervous system that is primed to express psychopathology when confronted with stressful experiences later in life. Nonhuman primate (NHP) studies have been extensively utilized to test this...
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