Social housing status impacts rhesus monkeys' affective responding in classic threat processing tasks.

ABSTRACT: Individuals' social contexts are broadly recognized to impact both their psychology and neurobiology. These effects are observed in people and in nonhuman animals who are the subjects for comparative and translational science. The social contexts in which monkeys are reared have long been recognized to have significant impacts on affective processing. Yet, the social contexts in which monkeys live as adults are often ignored and could have important consequences for interpreting findings, particularly those related to biopsychiatry and behavioral neuroscience studies. The extant nonhuman primate neuropsychological literature has historically tested individually-housed monkeys, creating a critical need to understand how social context might impact the outcomes of such experiments. We evalua

SUBMITTER: Charbonneau JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8907189 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature