Main description:

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.

Contents:

Chapters 1. Introduction: Relevance of NHP Translational Research to Understanding Social Inequalities in Health in Human Beings Tanja Jovanovic, PhD, Emory University
2. An Introduction to the Female Macaque Model of Social Subordination Stress Mark E Wilson PhD, Emory University

3. Effects of Social Subordination on Macaque Neurobehavioral Outcomes: focus on Neurodevelopment Jodi R. Godfrey, Melanie Pincus, Mar M. Sanchez PhD, Emory University
4. The Effects of Social Experience on the Stress System and Immune Function in Non-Human Primates Jordan Kohn, Leonidas Panagiotakopoulos, and Gretchen N. Neigh PhD, Emory University
5. The Influence of Social Environment on Morbidity, Mortality, and Reproductive Success in Free-Ranging Cercopithecine Primates Marnie G Silverstein DVM, Wake Forest School of Medicine
6. Social Status and the Non-human Primate Brain Stephanie L Willard PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Carol A. Shively PhD, Wake Forest School of Medicine
7. Emotional Eating in Socially Subordinate Female Rhesus Monkeys Vasiliki J Michopoulos, PhD, Emory University
8. Dietary Modification of Physiological Responses to Chronic Psychosocial Stress: Implications for the Obesity Epidemic Carol Shively PhD and Anna Fimmel, Wake Forest School of Medicine