Lewis J K, McKinney W T
Dis Nerv Syst. 1976 Dec;37(12):687-93.
The social behavior of six juvenile rhesus monkeys was studied in a playroom before, during, and after a series of electrically induced convulsive (EIC) treatments. Three subjects had been reared in a normal environment, and showed the usual levels of social activity for monkeys of this age. Three were socially deprived early in life and showed higher levels of self-directed behaviors and lower levels of social behaviors. At different times all animals received both EIC ad sham EIC, three times per week for 4 weeks, and were observed in a playroom. In general the experimental subjects showed an increase in environmental activity as a consequence of EIC treatments while the control subjects showed decreases in environmental activity and in several social behaviors. The control subjects showed clear increases in self-disturbance behaviors while the experimental animals tended to show a decrease. The patterns of these changes thus showed clearly different characteristics of response to EIC and sham EIC as a function of early rearing condition. The results are discussed in terms of possible models for further study of the effects of EIC on physiological and social variables in a controlled laboratory setting.
在一系列电诱导惊厥（EIC）治疗之前、期间和之后，对六只幼年恒河猴的社会行为在一个游戏室中进行了研究。三只受试动物在正常环境中饲养，表现出该年龄段猴子通常的社会活动水平。另外三只在生命早期被剥夺了社交环境，表现出较高水平的自我导向行为和较低水平的社会行为。在不同时间，所有动物都接受了EIC和假EIC治疗，每周三次，共4周，并在游戏室中进行观察。总体而言，实验对象由于EIC治疗而表现出环境活动增加，而对照对象则表现出环境活动和几种社会行为减少。对照对象的自我干扰行为明显增加，而实验动物则倾向于减少。因此，这些变化模式显示出作为早期饲养条件函数的对EIC和假EIC反应的明显不同特征。根据在受控实验室环境中进一步研究EIC对生理和社会变量影响的可能模型对结果进行了讨论。
