Sentences with phrase «on rhesus»

Attachment, Differentiation, Individuation, and Neuroscience: Low Complexity Partners in Couple Therapy The early 1950s brought us John Bowlby's work on infant attachment, mirrored by Harry Harlow's primate attachment studies on rhesus monkeys.

Neuroscientists in Switzerland might soon be unable to conduct basic research on rhesus macaques

Earlier studies on rhesus monkeys showed similar success.

Not exact matches

In 1947, scientists studying yellow fever put a rhesus monkey in a cage on a tree in Uganda's Zika Forest.

18 Other studies indicate that chimps but not rhesus monkeys are able to recognize themselves on television (CSPS 211).

Psychologist Harry Harlow conducted a number of controversial experiments on social isolation in rhesus monkeys which demonstrated the devastating effects of disrupting early attachments.

By showing the devastating effects of deprivation on young rhesus monkeys, Harlow revealed the importance of a caregiver's love for healthy childhood development.

«The tamarin work didn't pan out, but there are now several studies that show evidence of theory of mind in primates, including work by Brian Hare, Josep Call, Mike Tomasello, Felix Warneken, Laurie Santos, Justin Wood, and myself on chimps, rhesus monkeys and tamarins.

In later endeavors, Nicolelis trained rhesus monkeys to use brain - machine interfaces to control robotic limbs, and later, the 3 - D movements of an avatar — animated versions of themselves on a digital screen.

The rhesus monkeys later learned to walk on a treadmill with robotic legs controlled by their brains.

In January 2008, working with the Computational Brain Project of the Japan Science and Technology Agency, Nicolelis took another step forward, this time with Idoya, a rhesus monkey trained to walk upright on a treadmill for treats.

The group will know for sure after they perform a cesarean section on the mother — which will also let them obtain the placenta, normally eaten by rhesus mothers.

The study chronicles the use of Vasalgel ™ in groups of rhesus macaques — confirming previous preclinical findings in rabbits on the efficacy of the new device and offering a new tool to colony managers.

says Elizabeth Brannon, a cognitive neuroscientist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and the lead author on the original rhesus monkey study.

The agency's last research project on primates began in the early 1970s, when NASA and the US air force studied the effect of radiation on cataract formation in rhesus monkeys.

Korey Smith, a student at North Carolina's Johnson C. Smith University (one of the nation's 104 historically black colleges and universities, or HBCUs), said that presenting his research on working memory and neural activity in rhesus macaques was just one reason to attend ERN.

The researchers have focussed their attention on the activity patterns of 237 neurons that had been recorded some years previously using electrodes implanted in the frontal lobes of two rhesus monkeys.

«Florida's monkey river: Anthropologists studied human interaction with a colony of feral rhesus macaques living on the Silver River in central Florida.»

In one example, scientists linked the brains of rhesus macaque monkeys, who worked together to control the movements of the arm of a virtual avatar on a digital display in front of them.

The rhesus monkeys were trained to move their hands to a light cue on a touch screen (for example from the center of the screen to the left), while at the same time the activity of neurons in their posterior parietal cortex was recorded.

In September a 25 - year study conducted by the National Institute on Aging, in Baltimore, found that rhesus monkeys fed a moderate diet lived just as long as those receiving 25 to 30 percent fewer calories.

The groups have previously published updates on their monkeys» health, but in tomorrow's issue of Science, one of them reports survival data from their colony of 76 rhesus monkeys.

«However,» the author adds, «although our results suggest that rhesus macaques are able to distinguish between in - group and out - group individuals based on olfactory cues alone, the recognition of conspecifics might be a more multimodal process also including visual cues or a combination of olfactory and auditory signals.

So in his work with rhesus macaques, Schwartz developed an array of 100 electrodes that eavesdrops on 100 neurons in the motor cortex.

The group also gave five rhesus macaques a single injection, and found that it conferred protection on four of them for at least five weeks afterwards (Nature, doi.org/bx8n).

Four U.S. representatives — prompted by an aggressive ad campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which claimed that baby rhesus macaques at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development lab of Stephen Suomi were being ripped from their mothers at birth and being mentally traumatized — called on NIH to conduct a bioethical review of the lab.

I remember this vividly because I worked on one of the programs he mocked, an examination of the behavior and genetics of wild Himalayan rhesus monkeys.

After the microbicide showed promise in test - tube experiments, Haase's team moved on to rhesus macaques.

Curious about how monkey onlookers respond to these tantrums, primatologist Stuart Semple of Roehampton University in London and colleagues followed a wild troop of rhesus monkeys on Cayo Santiago, an island off the coast of Puerto Rico.

A new study suggests that female rhesus monkeys engage in a kind of baby talk, casting doubt on the long - held belief that the behavior is exclusively human.

In the PLOS ONE paper, Chan and colleagues describe how three male rhesus macaques they studied displayed cognitive and motor impairments emerging at 16 months of age, and dystonia and signs of neurodegeneration on brain imaging at 24 months of age.

Researchers from a set of international universities are working together to save an invaluable scientific resource that was badly damaged in Hurricane Maria — a population of rhesus monkeys living on a remote island — and the staff and facilities that support them.

I completed my MA thesis on the association between early life adversity and developing stress physiology in free - ranging juvenile rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago.

Projects utilizing cynomolgus or rhesus monkeys can be initiated on short lead times, as a pool of quarantined animals is maintained on the premises.

But new research in rhesus monkeys could shed light on the mechanism behind these observations.

Effects of early life experience on cortisol / salivary alpha - amylase symmetry in free - ranging juvenile rhesus monkeys [abstract].

An ultrastructural analysis of the effects of ethanol self - administration on the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus in rhesus macaques.

By instead applying polarized light (light waves that vibrate on one plane) in a process the researchers coined Oosight, the eggs stayed healthy, allowing the scientists to finally clone the rhesus monkey embryos [source: BBC].

PHE owns on - site breeding colonies of rhesus and cynomolgus macaques.

ZIKV, an emerging neglected virus, was first documented in 1947 when it was isolated from a sentinel rhesus monkey stationed on a tree platform in the Zika forest, Uganda [12].

A pilot study conducted by S. Narasimhan (Yale University) and M. Philipp showed that multiple tick feedings did not affect transmission in rhesus macaques, but the impact of this on xenodiagnosis was uncertain.

Ticks were allowed to feed to repletion on the backs of rhesus macaques for infection (Panel A).

On pp. 677 — 688 of the current issue of Cell Metabolism, Rhoads et al. integrated large - scale data from the hepatic transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome of rhesus monkeys after 2 years on a 30 % calorie - restricted diet to reveal multi-modal mechanisms driven by calorie restriction to rewire metabolisOn pp. 677 — 688 of the current issue of Cell Metabolism, Rhoads et al. integrated large - scale data from the hepatic transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome of rhesus monkeys after 2 years on a 30 % calorie - restricted diet to reveal multi-modal mechanisms driven by calorie restriction to rewire metabolison a 30 % calorie - restricted diet to reveal multi-modal mechanisms driven by calorie restriction to rewire metabolism.

In June, the Scripps Research Institute published their work on a similar vaccine that was found to be effective in mice, as well as rhesus monkeys, and other opioid vaccines are also being developed and tested in order to address the growing epidemic.

(Other rhesus monkeys for which records exist have lived to 36 and 39 years so far on normal diets.

The latest salvo in Macro-Nutrient Land is the Calorie Restriction Diet, inspired by animal experiments in which mice, guppies, water fleas, yeast, spiders, Labrador retrievers, a microscopic water invertebrate called the rotifer, and rhesus monkeys are said to live longer on diets that restrict caloric intake.13 Researchers are encouraged by the longevity of a single monkey who has reached 38 years on a diet in which the portion of monkey chow — dried compressed pellets of wheat, corn, soybean, alfalfa, fish and brewer's yeast — has been cut by 30 percent compared to controls.

To further explore the relevance of these findings in rodents on primate health, a study was initiated at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center (WNPRC) in 1989, studying a 30 % calorie restriction in rhesus monkeys (8).

«Effect of low protein diet on low dose chronic aflatoxin B1 induced hepatic injury in rhesus monkeys.»

In two NIA studies, healthy, normal - weight rhesus monkeys were placed on long - term calorie restricted regimens.

Meet Canto, the rhesus monkey on the left in the picture above.