Validation of the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) to screen for atypical social behaviors in juvenile macaques
| Autor: | Mar M. Sanchez, V. Michopoulos, Chris Gunter, L. H. Howell, Z. Kovacs Balint, Jessica Raper, Jocelyne Bachevalier |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Pervasive Developmental Disorders Autism Spectrum Disorder Social Sciences Monkeys Macaque Developmental psychology Social group Families 0302 clinical medicine Psychology Primate Child Children Mammals Multidisciplinary biology Behavior Animal Animal Behavior 05 social sciences Brain Eukaryota Antisocial Personality Disorder Animal Models Experimental Organism Systems Autism spectrum disorder Animal Sociality Vertebrates Apes Medicine Female 050104 developmental & child psychology Social status Research Article Predictive validity Primates Science Research and Analysis Methods 03 medical and health sciences Species Specificity biology.animal Old World monkeys medicine Animals Humans Adults 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Chimpanzees Social Behavior Face validity Behavior Rhesus Monkeys Organisms Biology and Life Sciences medicine.disease Macaca mulatta Age Groups Behavior Rating Scale Amniotes Developmental Psychology People and Places Animal Studies Population Groupings Zoology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Social behavior |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 5, p e0235946 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Popis: | Primates form strong social bonds and depend on social relationships and networks that provide shared resources and protection critical for survival. Social deficits such as those present in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other psychiatric disorders hinder the individual’s functioning in communities. Given that early diagnosis and intervention can improve outcomes and trajectories of ASD, there is a great need for tools to identify early markers for screening/diagnosis, and for translational animal models to uncover biological mechanisms and develop treatments. One of the most widely used screening tools for ASD in children is the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS), a quantitative measure used to identify individuals with atypical social behaviors. The SRS has been adapted for use in adult rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) –a species very close to humans in terms of social behavior, brain anatomy/connectivity and development– but has not yet been validated or adapted for a necessary downward extension to younger ages matching those for ASD diagnosis in children. The goal of the present study was to adapt and validate the adult macaque SRS (mSRS) in juvenile macaques with age equivalent to 4-6 yr old human children. Expert primate coders modified the mSRS to adapt it to rate atypical social behaviors in juvenile macaques living in complex social groups at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. Construct and face validity of this juvenile mSRS (jmSRS) was determined based on well-established and operationalized measures of social and non-social behaviors in this species using traditional behavioral observations. We found that the jmSRS identifies variability in social responsiveness of juvenile rhesus monkeys and shows strong construct/predictive validity, as well as sensitivity to detect atypical social behaviors in young male and female macaques across social status. Thus, the jmSRS provides a promising tool for translational research on macaque models of children social disorders. |
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