The environment plays an important role in disease dynamics and in determining the health
of individuals. Specifically, the built environment has a large impact on the prevention and …

Social interactions help group-living organisms cope with socio-environmental challenges
and are central to survival and reproductive success. Recent research has shown that social …

Through incorporating both physical and psychological forms of stressors, a variety of rodent
models have provided important insights into the understanding of stress physiology …

Social experiences are strongly associated with individuals' health, aging, and survival in
many mammalian taxa, including humans. Despite their role as models of many other …

Late adolescence is a period of dynamic change in the brain as humans learn to navigate
increasingly complex environments. In particular, prefrontal cortical (PFC) regions undergo …

Social-cognitive processes facilitate the use of environmental cues to understand others,
and to be understood by others. Animal models provide vital insights into the neural …

Pair housing of macaques has become a widely implemented compromise between
meeting the social needs of the monkeys and allowing for their use in biomedical research …

The growing recognition that social needs of primates in captivity must be addressed can
present challenges to staff at primate facilities charged with implementing pair‐housing …

What does it mean to be “well” and how might such a state be cultivated? When we speak of
wellbeing, it is of ourselves and fellow humans. When it comes to nonhuman animals …

Background Neuroscience research using macaques remains fundamental in our
endeavours to understand how the human brain functions. Applying the refinement principle …