[The behavioral and neurohormonal manifestations of emotional stress states in monkeys]

Abstract

Under the effect of intense stressful stimuli baboons developed a depressive state. The disintegration of individual and social behaviour correlates with changes in functional activity of steroid-producing glands and the dynamics of the blood endorphin concentration, thus suggesting involvement of the opioid peptide system and the hypophyseal-gonadal complex in mechanisms of stress-induced depressive states.