ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to draw the attention of the medical world to the development of a new experimental model of neurosis in monkeys and to accomplishments of Soviet primatology in general. The modeling of human neurogenic disorders in animals presents a very difficult and complex challenge in that no one experimental model can be expected to match exactly its human counterpart. The experimental literature on simulating human diseases in nonhuman primates leaves no doubt as to the advantages of the primate model. At the same time, disorders of higher nervous activity and visceral pathology have not received the serious attention they deserve either in the Soviet Union or abroad. Worthwhile biomedical experimentation with primates demands of the investigator maximal attention to the goals of the experiment and expert consideration of the biological characteristics of the species, particularly of the high level of development of the central nervous system.
