Why the study?
Does long-term exposure to shock-avoidance schedules increase blood pressure in restrained rhesus monkeys?
Population
9 adolescent rhesus monkeys with implanted arterial catheters (6 experimental, 3 controls)
Comparison
Sidman shock-avoidance schedules for 7 to 14… vs Control monkeys observed for 10 to 14 months…
Design
Preclinical
Follow-up
7 to 14 months
Authors
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Does not support clinical stress interventions in hypertension; hypothesis-generating for behavioral models in primates.
Does long-term exposure to shock-avoidance schedules increase blood pressure in restrained rhesus monkeys?
Long-term behavioral stress via shock-avoidance schedules induces sustained systolic and diastolic hypertension in rhesus monkeys.
Ralph P. Forsyth (1969) studied this question.
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