ARTHUR KLING
Chief , Psychiatry, VHA Medical Center, Sepulveda

e-mail: Akling@ucla.edu

Special Interest Areas: Arthur Kling has spent his career in medicine with his specialty in psychiatry. His extensice research career includes studies of both humans ans primates with a specific focus on brain regulation of social sexual behavior. He also studied the effects of stress on the immune function. He supervises psychiatrists completing their psychiatric residency.
Background: Arthur was an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois College of Medicine from 1965-1970, then he moved on to Rutgers Medical School as a Professor of Psychiatry from 1970-1980 and then to UCLA School of Medicine where he has been a Professor of Psychiatry from 1980 to his present position as an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry.
Selected Bibliography:

"Gender Differences in Sexual Fantasy and Beghavior in a College Population," with Hsu B, Kling A, Kessler C, Knapke K, Diefenbach P, Elias J, in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 20 (2): 103-118, 1994.

Neurochemical Correlates of the Kluver-Bucy Syndrome by in Vivo Microdialysis in Monkey," with Kling A, Tachiki K, Lloyd R, in Behavior and Brain Research, 56: 161-170, 1993.

Effects of Social Separation on Immune Function and Brain Neurotrnsmitters (by Microdialysis) in Cebus Monkey" (C. Apella). In Neuroimmunomodulation, New York Academy of Sciences, 1992.

"The Amygdala and Social Behavior," in Aggelton J. (ed), The Amygdala, New York: Wiley- Liss, pp. 353-377, 1992. "Neurobiology of Affiliative Behavior in Nonhuman Primates." Steklis H, A Kling, in The Psychobiology of Attachment and Separation, 1985.

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