Stress and distress in response to change

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to consider various changes in the environment, both physical and social, which trigger a set of behavioural, biochemical and physiological responses known as stress responses. It will consider the pattern of physiological changes that result from environmental change in nonhuman primates. The composition of this picture draws on research from the most extensive literature in the fields — that on rodents and humans. Much of the rodent literature dates from the 1960s, prior to the Vietnam War, and the same war gave a much needed impetus to human and nonhuman primate studies