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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Shively, Carol A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Wilson, Mark E. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Σειρά: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects,
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Human physiology.; Animal physiology.; Neurobiology.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Health psychology.; Life Sciences.; Animal Physiology.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Human Physiology.; Health Psychology.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.