This
dissertation consists of one published paper (March, 2004) and one article that was accepted for publication in April, 2005. Both papers explore the development of a cognitive battery to assess learning and memory effects in a nonhuman primate model. The primary goals of this research were (1) to develop a battery of cognitive tasks that would assess
orientation and anterograde and retrograde amnesia in rhesus macaques and (2) to use the cognitive battery to distinguish the effects of convulsive therapy (used for the relief of depression) from those of anesthesia alone (sham). The first paper appeared in the March issue of the
Journal of ECT (2004). In that paper, Dr.'s Holly Lisanby