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This book provides a comprehensive look atnonhuman primate social inequalities as models for health differences associated with socioeconomic status in humans. The benefit of the socially-housedmonkey model is that it provides the complexity of hierarchical structure andrank affiliation, i.e. both negative and positive aspects of social status. Atthe same time, nonhuman primates are more amenable to controlled experimentsand more invasive studies that can be used inhuman beings toexamine the effects of low status on brain development, neuroendocrinefunction, immunity, and eating behavior. Because all of these biological andbehavioral substrates form the underpinnings of human illness, and are likelyshared among primates, the nonhuman primate model can significantly advance ourunderstanding of the best interventions in humans.
List of contents
Introduction: Relevance of NHP Translational Research to Understanding Social Inequalities in Health in Human Beings.- An Introduction to the Female Macaque Model of Social Subordination Stress.- Effects of Social Subordination on Macaque Neurobehavioral Outcomes: focus on Neurodevelopment.- The Effects of Social Experience on the Stress System and Immune Function in Non-Human Primates.- The Influence of Social Environment on Morbidity, Mortality, and Reproductive Success in Free-Ranging Cercopithecine Primates.- Social Status and the Non-human Primate Brain.- Emotional Eating in Socially Subordinate Female Rhesus Monkeys.- Dietary Modification of Physiological Responses to Chronic Psychosocial Stress: Implications for the Obesity Epidemic.
About the author
Carol Shively, Ph.D. Professor
Pathology
Wake Forest School of Medicine
cshively@wakehealth.edu
(336) 716-1524
Mark Wilson PhD, Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Emory University
mwils02@emory.edu
Summary
This book provides a comprehensive look at
nonhuman primate social inequalities as models for health differences associated with socioeconomic status in humans. The benefit of the socially-housed
monkey model is that it provides the complexity of hierarchical structure and
rank affiliation, i.e. both negative and positive aspects of social status. At
the same time, nonhuman primates are more amenable to controlled experiments
and more invasive studies that can be used in
human beings to
examine the effects of low status on brain development, neuroendocrine
function, immunity, and eating behavior. Because all of these biological and
behavioral substrates form the underpinnings of human illness, and are likely
shared among primates, the nonhuman primate model can significantly advance our
understanding of the best interventions in humans.
