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Published in final edited form as: Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2010 Sep 17;35(7):1466–1483. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.09.003

Table 1.

Primate models of early life stress and the features of the early stressful experiences.

Human Phenomenon	Animal Model	Species
Parental Separation Models (parents absent)
Parental Loss/Rearing in Extremely Deprived Environment	Isolate/Surrogate-Rearing	Rhesus monkeys and other Old World monkeys and apes
Parental Loss/Rearing with Minimal Adult Contact	Peer-Rearing	Rhesus monkeys
Non-Permanent Disruption of the Parent-Child Bond	Repeated Parental Separations	Old World (e.g. rhesus monkeys) and New World (e.g. marmosets and squirrel monkeys) monkeys