Shamefully, human beings are the only mammals to separate mothers from their infants. Dr. John Krystal,Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology at the Yale Schoolof Medicine, described the impact of maternal separation onthe infant as 'profound', citing the recent discovery that theautonomic activity (heart rate and other involuntary nervoussystem activity) of two-day-old sleeping babies is 176 percent higher during maternal separation.
-Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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