James received her BA in Psychology from Boston University in 1999. She then went on to study Clinical Psychology at Florida State University where she received her MA and Ph. D. in 2009.
Scientific career
James was a postdoctoral fellow at the Neurobehavioral Research Laboratory and Clinic at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX before moving to Minnesota where she passed the clinical psychologyMinnesota state board and is now a licensed clinical psychologist. James is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor in both the Department of Neuroscience and the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota. While at the University of Minnesota, she teamed up with Apostolos P. Georgopoulos on The Minnesota Women Healthy Aging Project to design a longitudinal study of how aging effects women's brains. James' research has demonstrated the role of ApoE protecting brain from traumatic stress and highlighted the role of immunity in brain health. She has published results showing that alleles of the human leuckocyte antigen DR13 impact brain health and shown a correlation of DRB13*02 with reduced loss of brain loss.
Publications
James, Lisa M.; Belitskaya-Lévy, Ilana; Lu, Ying; Wang, Hui; Engdahl, Brian E.; Leuthold, Arthur C.; Georgopoulos, Apostolos P.. "Development and application of a diagnostic algorithm for posttraumatic stress disorder". Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. 231 : 1–7.
James, Lisa M.; Engdahl, Brian E.; Georgopoulos, Apostolos P.. "Apolipoprotein E: the resilience gene". Experimental Brain Research. 235 : 1853–1859.. Epub 2017 Mar 15.
Christova, Peka; James, Lisa M.; Engdahl, Brian E.; Lewis, Scott M.; Carpenter, Adam F.; Georgopoulos, Apostolos P.. "Subcortical brain atrophy in Gulf War Illness". Experimental Brain Research. 235 : 2777–2786.
Georgopoulos, AP, James, LM, Carpenter, AF, Engdahl, BE, Leuthold, AC & Lewis, SM 2017, ‘Gulf War illness as a neuroimmune disease’ Exp Brain Res, vol. 235, no. 10, pp. 3217-3225.
James, LM, Christova, P, Engdahl, BE, Lewis, SM, Carpenter, AF & Georgopoulos, AP 2017, ‘Human Leukocyte Antigen and Gulf War Illness : HLA-DRB1*13:02 Spares Subcortical Atrophy in Gulf War Veterans’ EBioMedicine, vol. 26, pp. 126-131.
Engdahl, BE, James, LM, Miller, RD, Leuthold, AC, Lewis, SM, Carpenter, AF & Georgopoulos, AP 2018, ‘Brain Function in Gulf War Illness and Associated Mental Health Comorbidities’ J Neurol Neuromedicine, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 24-34.
Georgopoulos, AP, Tsilibary, EC, Souto, EP, James, LM, Engdahl, BE & Georgopoulos, A 2018, ‘Adverse effects of Gulf War Illness serum on neural cultures and their prevention by healthy serum’ J Neurol Neuromedicine, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 19-27.
Tsilibary, EC, Souto, EP, James, LM, Engdahl, BE & Georgopoulos, AP 2018, ‘Human Immunoglobulin G Neutralizes Adverse Effects of Gulf War Illness Serum in Neural Cultures: Paving the Way to Immunotherapy for GWI’ J Neurol Neuromedicine, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 23-28.
James, LM, Christova, P, Lewis, SM, Engdahl, BE, Georgopoulos, A & Georgopoulos, AP 2018, ‘Protective Effect of Human Leukocyte Antigen Allele DRB1*13:02 on Age-Related Brain Gray Matter Volume Reduction in Healthy Women’ EBioMedicine, vol. 29, pp. 31-37.
Mattson, E, James, L & Engdahl, B 2018, ‘Personality Factors and Their Impact on PTSD and Post-traumatic Growth is Mediated by Coping Style Among OIF/OEF Veterans’ Mil Med.
James, LM, Dolan, S, Leuthold, AC, Engdahl, BE, Georgopoulos, A & Georgopoulos, AP 2018, ‘The effects of human leukocyte antigen DRB1*13 and apolipoprotein E on age-related variability of synchronous neural interactions in healthy women’ EBioMedicine, vol. 35, pp. 288-294.
Georgopoulos, AP, James, LM, Christova, P & Engdahl, BE 2018, ‘A Two-Hit Model of The Biological Origin of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ’ J Ment Health Clin Psychol, vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 9-14.
James, LM & Georgopoulos, AP 2019, ‘Human Leukocyte Antigen as a Key Factor in Preventing Dementia and Associated Apolipoprotein E4 Risk’ Front Aging Neurosci, vol. 11, p. 82.
