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A Technique for Psychiatric Research in Animals

LINCOLN D. CLARK, M.D.

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1962;7(2):125-129.

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The methods to be presented in this paper were developed in the course of research carried out at Hamilton Station, the Behavioral Division of the Roscoe B. Jackson Laboratory. In the earlier years of this laboratory, a major area of research was the genetics of animal behavior. The behavioral characteristics of 5 breeds of dogs and a variety of hybrids reared under carefully controlled environmental conditions were analyzed from a genetic standpoint. This entailed the development of a battery of techniques for measuring dog behavior in various test situations. Subsequently, interest was directed toward the effects of particular environmental conditions and types of handling upon the behavioral development of dogs with known genetic backgrounds. For example, animals were reared under semiwild conditions, in isolation from other dogs, or with kind, as opposed to punitive, contacts with human handlers. In the course of this work, a considerable . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
SALT LAKE CITY

From the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Utah, and Behavioral Division, Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Me.

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Utah, and Scientific Associate, Roscoe B. Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Me.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Oct. 5, 1961.

Research discussed in this article was supported by Grant MY-1775 from National Institute of Mental Health, and carried out in collaboration with John L. Fuller, Ph.D., Staff Scientist at the Roscoe B. Jackson Laboratory.

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