Donald T. Lysle

Donald T. Lysle is a Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, leading research on opiate drugs' neural-immune interactions and therapeutic applications.

His research focuses on:

• Neuroimmune pathways mediating opiate-induced immune alterations
• Conditioned immune responses to drug-associated environmental stimuli
• Neural circuitry (ventral tegmental area, basolateral amygdala, nucleus accumbens, dorsal hippocampus)
• Cytokine signaling (interleukin-1β) in astrocytes and microglia
• Opiate-based pharmacotherapies for PTSD prevention

Scientific recognition includes the prestigious Kenan Distinguished Professorship. His laboratory employs fluorescence immunohistochemistry, confocal microscopy, and Bitplane Imaris analysis, with active collaboration with Dr. Kathryn Reissner's group on hippocampal astrocyte morphometry.

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