Jay R. Kaplan

Dr. Jay Kaplan (Ph.D., Northwestern), a physical anthropologist and primatologist who teaches one Anthropology course each semester, investigates how psychosocial stress influences disease. His latest research concerns the neurobiology of aggression, especially the unanticipated association among low cholesterol, reduced brain serotonin, and increased violence. Dr. Kaplan is President-elect of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Primatology, and helps direct a primate research and training program at Bogor University, Indonesia. His primary appointment is as Professor of Comparative Medicine and Director of the Comparative Medicine Clinical Research Center at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine. [1979]

Contact:

Dr. Jay Kaplan
Tel: (336) 716-1522
Fax: (336) 716-1515
jkaplan@wfubmc.edu

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