News tagged with social rank

Learning who's the top dog: Study reveals how the brain stores information about social rank

Researchers supported by the Wellcome Trust have discovered that we use a different part of our brain to learn about social hierarchies than we do to learn ordinary information. The study provides clues as to how this information ...

Neuroscience Nov 08, 2012 | 2.5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Social stress affects immune system gene expression in monkeys

The ranking of a monkey within her social environment and the stress accompanying that status dramatically alters the expression of nearly 1,000 genes, a new scientific study reports. The research is the first ...

Genetics Apr 09, 2012 | 5 / 5 (8) | 0 |