Assistant Professor
Depts. of General Dentistry and Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine
1 Kneeland St.
Boston, MA 02111
Phone: 617-636-3775
Email: Michael.Thompson@Tufts.edu

Research Interests:

Dr. Thompson has a long-standing interest in behavioral pharmacology and psychopharmacogenetics, and has actively collaborated with Dr. Shuster, Kream, Miller and Miczek in research involving studies into interactions between stress and the endogenous opioid system in the modulation of pain response. Dr. Thompson is the director of both the undergraduate and postgraduate Dental Pharmacology courses in the School of Dental Medicine, as well as the Course Director for the Pharmacology course at the Forsyth School for Dental Hygiene. Dr. Thompson also contributes to the DPET courses in Behavioral Pharmacology and Graduate Pharmacology.

Recent Publications:

Miller, L. G., Thompson, M. L., Byrnes, J. J. , Greenblatt, D. J. and Shemmer, A. Kinetics, brain uptake, and receptor binding of tandospirone and its metabolite 1-(2-Pyrimidinyl)-piperazine. J. Clin. Psychopharmacol., 12:341-345, 1992.

Kang, I. , Thompson, M. L., Heller, J. and Miller, L. G., Persistent elevation in GABA A receptor subunit MRNAs. Brain Research Bulletin 26:809-812, 1991.

Lyte, M. Nelson, S. G. and Thompson, M. L. Innate and adaptive immune responses in a social conflict paradigm. Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology 57:137-147, 1990.

Barnhill, J. G. , Miller, L. G., Greenblatt, D. J. , Thompson, M. L., Ciraulo, D. A. and Shader, R. I. Benzodiazepine receptor binding response to acute and chronic stress is increased in aging animals. Pharmacology 42:181-187, 1991.