Social Inequalities in Health in Nonhuman Primates the Biology of the Gradient

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. bot...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Otros Autores: Shively, Carol A. (-), Wilson, Mark E.
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2016.
Colección:Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects.
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Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b33298592*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.