Psychiatric Treatment for Great Apes?

Brüne, Martin; Brüne-Cohrs, Ute; McGrew, William C.

doi:10.1126/science.306.5704.2039b

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“…Similar to the findings reported for humans, our findings may be a result of more generalized conditions, such as captivity, and the loss of autonomy and social bonds that are critical to the psychological well-being of chimpanzees (Brüne et al, 2004;Reimers et al, 2007). This study suggests that chimpanzees can exhibit behavioral clusters similar to generalized anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder as a result of potentially traumatic experiences.…”

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Signs of generalized anxiety and compulsive disorders in chimpanzees

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Journal of Veterinary Behavior

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Signs of generalized anxiety and compulsive disorders in chimpanzees

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“…Prolonged captivity, sensory deprivation, and use in laboratories have been shown to contribute to behavioral pathologies in nonhuman primates (Anderson 2010;Bellanca and Crockett 2002;Bradshaw et al 2008;Kalcher et al 2008;Llorente and Campi 2014;Novak 2003;Rodríguez-Rodríguez et al 2010), including abnormal behaviors such as floating limb (Bentson et al 2010), self-biting (Reinhardt and Rossell 2001), self-injury (Wielebnowski et al 2002), self-clasping (Buttelmann et al 2008), pacing (Rybiski Tarou et al 2005), rocking (Lopresti-Goodman et al 2012), object attachment (Janson 2012), coprophagy (Nash et al 1999), and regurgitation-reingestion (Baker and Easley 1996). Poor conditions early in life may also affect personality (Martin 2005) and the development of mental disorders later in life (Brüne et al 2004;Ferdowsian et al 2011Ferdowsian et al , 2012Troisi, 2005).…”

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Rehabilitation and Socialization of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Used for Entertainment and as Pets: An 8-Year Study at Fundació Mona

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Abstracts Primates are at times used as performers in circuses, advertisements, films, and as pets. Most of these animals are socially isolated from their peers. They exhibit behavioral problems and lack important skills for living in a group environment. One of the main challenges primate rescue centers face is creating groups to socialize rescued individuals and promote the development of species-typical behaviors. We monitored a group of 15 chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) housed at Fundació Mona, a primate rescue and rehabilitation centre, for 8 yr. The aim of the study was to study the rehabilitation process and to establish variables that may influence the behavioral recovery of the chimpanzees. We used scan sampling to assess behavior and two welfare indices over the study period. Our results show that both desirable behaviors and welfare indices increased over time, while nondesirable behaviors decreased. We found no differences between pet and performer chimpanzees, but captive-born subjects recovered better than wild-born. We also established that chimpanzees that were younger at the onset of rehabilitation reached higher levels of social and behavioral competence than those that were older. We conclude that both social group housing and opportunities for the development of species-typical behaviors have a positive effect on the welfare and rehabilitation of performer and pet chimpanzees, but that their previous history influences rehabilitation. Int J Primatol

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“…It is also to be expected that psychopathologies of great apes arise from dysfunctions of homologous brain structures, at the level of cells and neurotransmitters (Davenport and Menzel, 1963;Berkson and Mason, 1964;Wildman et al, 2003). Detailed analyses at the functional and the mechanistic levels of similarities and differences between humans and other apes in manifestation, course and outcome of psychopathological syndromes, including response to treatment are needed (Bru¨ne et al, 2004). These should substantially further our understanding of mental well-being, therapy and prevention of psychopathologies.…”

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confidence: 98%