Filial attachment and its disruption: Insights from the guinea pig

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1747-1754

  Hennessy, Michael B ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Attachment disruption; Depression; Guinea pig; Maternal buffering; Maternal separation; Proinflammatory; Stress buffering

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; GUINEA PIG; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; OBJECT RELATION;

ANIMALS; GUINEA PIGS; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MODELS, ANIMAL; OBJECT ATTACHMENT;

EID: 84911445928     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.21215     Document Type: Article

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