Gonadectomy negatively impacts social behavior of adolescent male primates

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 140-148

  Richards, A Brent ^a   Morris, Richard W ^b   Ward, Sarah ^a   Schmitz, Stephanie ^a   Rothmond, Debora A ^a,b   Noble, Pam L ^c   Woodward, Ruth A ^d   Winslow, James T ^c   Weickert, Cynthia Shannon ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c NIMH IRP Non Human Primate Core   (United States)

^d EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Fear; Object novelty; Puberty; Sex hormones; Social brain; Social dominance; Social novelty; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; GONADECTOMY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THREAT;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EMOTIONS; ESTRADIOL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FACIAL EXPRESSION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTHERS; ORCHIECTOMY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67349140918     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2009.03.021     Document Type: Article

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