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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2008 Oct 11;34(2):172–180. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2008.08.020

Table 2.

Neurobehavioral development assessed in differentially-reared rhesus macaques at different developmental ages

Mother-reared (n=15)
PND 7 PND 14 PND 21 PND 30
Activity cluster 0.9±0.1 1.2±0.1 1.5±0.02 1.5±0.03
Predominant state 0.5±0.1 0.8±0.2 1.0±0.1 1.5±0.1 ‡

Peer-reared (n=12)
PND 7 PND 14 PND 21 PND 30
Activity cluster 1.0±0.1 1.4±0.1 1.3±0.1 1.2±0.1 *
Predominant state 0.1±0.1 0.1±0.1 0.1±0.1 0.2±0.1

Peer-rearing affected neurological development of infants, differences becoming evident on PND 30. PR subjects did not display agitated behavior in response to the examination (scored as “Predominant state”) as MR infants did (‡ = age by rearing condition interaction; p = 0.0001). In addition, lower scores of “Activity” characterized PR infants (* p < 0.05). Abbreviations as in Figure 1 and 2