Maria C. Alvarado

This study investigates how low social status in female rhesus macaques affects reproductive success, hormone levels, and maternal care, finding lower reproductive success and altered estradiol patterns in subordinates.

This study examines the effects of chronic social stress on cognitive flexibility in adult female Rhesus macaques, finding mild deficits in low-ranking individuals compared to high-ranking ones.

This study examines how low social status and obesogenic diets affect brain structure in female macaques from infancy to adulthood, finding specific and persistent effects of social rank and transient effects of diet.

This paper develops two epigenetic clocks for rhesus macaques and finds that early life adversity, specifically infant maltreatment, is associated with epigenetic age acceleration.

This study shows that postnatal Zika virus infection in infant macaques leads to long-term behavioral, motor, and cognitive deficits along with structural and functional brain changes.