Jeremy Coplan M.D.

Jeremy Coplan, MD is currently a Professor of Psychiatry, Psychiatry specialist, and Director of the Division of Neuro-psycho-pharmacology, at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. He completed a Fellowship in Biological Psychiatry – Affective and Anxiety Disorders at Columbia University, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. After his fellowship, Jeremy conducted research in the Biological Studies Unit at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. In addition to 27 years psychiatric practice, Dr. Coplan has 150 Publications and 120 Peer Reviewed Articles including, “Adverse early experiences affect noradrenergic and serotonergic functioning in adult primates”, which remains one of few publications that documents persistent effects of early adversity in the serotonergic system. Jeremy’s current research project is the effect of GLP-1 agonists on telomere length and the effects of early life stress on Kynurenic acid, an endogenous NMDA antagonist and neuroprotectant.

What Jeremy knows that matters to you: Infants whose mothers are exposed to food-insecurity are more likely to have anxiety and behaviors associated with conduct disorder. Additionally, early-life stress during critical periods of neurodevelopment can result in the emergence of obesity and insulin resistance which might develop into diabetes.