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Professor Alison Murray

Professor Alison Murray
Professor Alison Murray
Professor Alison Murray

FRSE

Emeritus Professor

About
Email Address
alison.murray@abdn.ac.uk
School/Department
School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition

Biography

Professor Emerita (Radiology) with expertise in brain MRI correlates of cognitive ageing in the Aberdeen Birth Cohorts and in molecular brain imaging in TauRx clinical trials of novel therapeutics in Alzheimer's disease.

Consultant radiologist then honorary consultant NHS Grampian (1995-2020) with expertise in neuroradiology and molecular imaging. 

Qualifications

  • MB ChB (Hons) Medicine 
    1985 - University of Aberdeen 
  • MRCP Medicine 
    1988 - Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow 
  • FRCR Radiology 
    1992 - Royal College of Radiologists UK 
  • PhD Medical Sciences 
    2013 - University of Aberdeen 

    PhD Thesis November 2012 “Brain white matter hyperintensities: Correlates in normal ageing and relevance in Alzheimer’s disease.” Successfully defended January 2013

External Memberships

Fellow and council member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Chairperson Roland Sutton Academic Trust

Treasurer and Trustee Campaign for Evidence Based Healthcare

Trustee TENOVUS Scotland (Grampian Highlands and Islands)

Volunteer North-East Scotland Coastal Trust

Latest Publications

  • The Influence of Birth Weight, Socio-Economic Status, and Adult Health on Brain Volumes during Ageing

    McNeil, C., Habota, T., Sandu-Giuraniuc, A., Waiter, G., Whalley, H. C., Murray, A. D., Murray, A. D.
    Neuroepidemiology, vol. 59, no. 5, pp. 489-497
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • FDG-PET Image Classification in Alzheimer’s Disease: from Traditional Visual Analysis to Advanced Transfer Learning

    Tripathi, S., McNeil, C., Staff, R., Murray, A., Wischik, C., Schelter, B., Waiter, G.
    Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, vol. 59, pp. 201-208
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Myelin mapping in patients with rheumatoid arthritis-related fatigue: a TBSS-MTR study of integrity

    Alhashim, M., Basu, N., Murray, A., Waiter, G.
    BJR Open, vol. 7, no. 1, tzaf014
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Phantom study investigating the repeatability of radiomic features with alteration of image acquisition parameters in magnetic resonance imaging

    Mitchell-Hay, R., Ahearn, T., Murray, A., Waiter, G.
    Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 19-28
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The genetic basis of endometriosis and comorbidity with other pain and inflammatory conditions

    Rahmioglu, N., Mortlock, S., Ghiasi, M., Møller, P. L., Stefansdottir, L., Galarneau, G., Turman, C., Danning, R., Law, M. H., Sapkota, Y., Christofidou, P., Skarp, S., Giri, A., Banasik, K., Krassowski, M., Lepamets, M., Marciniak, B., Nõukas, M., Perro, D., Sliz, E., Sobalska-Kwapis, M., Thorleifsson, G., Topbas-Selcuki, N. F., Vitonis, A., Westergaard, D., Arnadottir, R., Burgdorf, K. S., Campbell, A., Cheuk, C. S., Clementi, C., Cook, J., De Vivo, I., DiVasta, A., Dorien, O., Donoghue, J. F., Edwards, T., Fontanillas, P., Fung, J. N., Geirsson, R. T., Girling, J. E., Harkki, P., Harris, H. R., Healey, M., Heikinheimo, O., Holdsworth-Carson, S., Hostettler, I. C., Houlden, H., Houshdaran, S., Irwin, J. C., Murray, A. D., DBDS Genomic Consortium, FinnGen Study, FinnGen Endometriosis Taskforce, The Celmatix Research Team, The 23andMe Research Team
    Nature Genetics, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 423-436
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

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Prizes and Awards

FRSE (2017-)

Research

Supervision

Dr Sima Salarirad (2011) “The relative contributions of imaging biomarkers of cerebrovascular and Alzheimer’s diseases to cognitive ageing”

Dr Moses Olufemi Sokunbi (2011) “Functional MRI entropy measurements of brain complexity”

Dr Ivan Roijals Miras (2012) “Information processing speed and information flow in the ageing brain”

Dr Dorota Chapko (2016) “Life-course determinants of resilience to cognitive ageing”

Dr Maryam Hashim (2016) 3rd supervisor “Optimisation of MRI for neuroimaging in inflammatory diseases”

Dr Maria Goni (2018) 3rd supervisor “Imaging correlates of fatigue in inflammatory disease”

Dr Clarisse De Vries – (2020) “Early life and life-course predictors of brain entropy and functional connectivity.

Dr Jennifer Waymont  (2020) “Automated detection of brain lesions in the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s and analysis of lifecourse determinants”

Dr Shaun Stone (2021) “Prediction models of dementia risk from brain MR images and proxies of cognitive reserve”

Dr Mina Kherzian (2021) “Investigating the role of polypharmacy in brain ageing, and cognitive, physical and emotional impairment in three well characterised cohort studies in Aberdeen”

Dr Shailendra Mohan Tripathi (2021) “Machine learning in classification of Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis and response to treatment”

Publications

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  • Aspirin moderates the association between cardiovascular risk, brain white matter hyperintensity total lesion volume and processing speed in normal ageing

    Khezrian, M., Waymont, J. M., Myint, P. K., McNeil, C. J., Whalley, L., Staff, R., Murray, A. D.
    Maturitas, vol. 133, pp. 49-53
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Klotho gene polymorphism, brain structure and cognition in early-life development

    de Vries, C. F., Staff, R., Noble, K. G., Muetzel, R. L., Vernooij, M. W., White, T., Waiter, G. D., Murray, A. D.
    Brain Imaging and Behavior, vol. 14, pp. 213-225
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Motion during Acquisition is Associated with fMRI Brain Entropy

    de Vries, C., Staff, R. T., Waiter, G. D., Sokunbi, M. O., Sandu, A. L., Murray, A. D.
    IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 586-593
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Validation and comparison of two automated methods to quantify brain white matter hyperintensities of presumed vascular origin

    Waymont, J. M. J., Petsa, C., McNeil, C. J., Murray, A. D., Waiter, G. D.
    Journal of International Medical Research, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 1-12
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Association of Inflammation With Pronociceptive Brain Connections in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients With Concomitant Fibromyalgia

    Kaplan, C. M., Schrepf, A., Ichesco, E., Larkin, T., Harte, S. E., Harris, R. E., Murray, A. D., Waiter, G. D., Clauw, D. J., Basu, N.
    Arthritis & Rheumatology, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 41-46
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • An overview of prevalence, determinants and health outcomes of polypharmacy

    Khezrian, M., McNeil, C. J., Murray, A. D., Myint, P. K.
    Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety, vol. 11, pp. 1-10
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • An epigenome-wide association study of sex-specific chronological ageing

    McCartney, D. L., Zhang, F., Hillary, R. F., Zhang, Q., Stevenson, A. J., Walker, R. M., Bermingham, M. L., Morris, S. W., Campbell, A., Murray, A. D., Whalley, H. C., Porteous, D. J., Evans, K. L., Chandra, T., Deary, I. J., McIntosh, A. M., Yang, J., Visscher, P. M., McRae, A. F., Marioni, R. E.
    Genome Medicine, vol. 12, 1
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Concentration-Dependent Activity of Hydromethylthionine on Cognitive Decline and Brain Atrophy in Mild to Moderate Alzheimer’s Disease

    Schelter, B. O., Shiells, H., Baddeley, T. C., Rubino, C. M., Ganesan, H., Hammel, J., Vuksanovic, V., Staff, R. T., Murray, A. D., Bracoud, L., Riedel, G., Gauthier, S., Jia, J., Bentham, P., Kook, K., Storey, J. M. D., Harrington, C. R., Wischik, C. M.
    Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 931-946
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of epigenetic age acceleration

    Gibson, J., Russ, T. C., Clarke, T., Howard, D. M., Hillary, R. F., Evans, K. L., Walker, R. M., Bermingham, M. L., Morris, S. W., Campbell, A., Hayward, C., Murray, A. D., Porteous, D. J., Horvath, S., Lu, A. T., McIntosh, A. M., Whalley, H. C., Marioni, R. E.
    PLoS Genetics, vol. 15, no. 11, e1008104
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Associations of autozygosity with a broad range of human phenotypes

    Murray, A. D., Clark, D. W., Yukinori, O., Kristjan H S, M., Mason, D., Pirastu, N. N., consortium, R.
    Nature Communications, vol. 10, 4957
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging correlates of fatigue in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

    Basu, N., Kaplan, C. M., Ichesco, E., Larkin, T., Schrepf, A., Murray, A. D., Clauw, D. J., Waiter, G. D., Harris, R. E.
    Rheumatology, vol. 58, no. 10, pp. 1822-1830
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Improved precision of epigenetic clock estimates across tissues and its implication for biological ageing

    Zhang, Q., Vallerga, C. L., Walker, R. M., Lin, T., Henders, A. K., Montgomery, G. W., He, J., Fan, D., Fowdar, J., Kennedy, M., Pitcher, T., Pearson, J., Halliday, G., Kwok, J. B., Hickie, I., Lewis, S., Anderson, T., Silburn, P. A., Mellick, G. D., Harris, S. E., Redmond, P., Murray, A. D., Porteous, D. J., Haley, C. S., Evans, K. L., McIntosh, A. M., Yang, J., Gratten, J., Marioni, R. E., Wray, N. R., Deary, I. J., McRae, A. F., Visscher, P. M.
    Genome Research, vol. 11, 54
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • AI could be our radiologists of the future, amid a healthcare staff crisis

    Murray, A.
    The Conversation
    Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles

  • P2-410: A RISK FACTOR PROFILE OF INCREASED WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY BURDEN IN THE ABERDEEN CHILDREN OF THE NINETEEN FIFTIES COHORT

    Waymont, J. M., McNeil, C., Waiter, G., Murray, A.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Differences in brain functional connectivity networks between cognitive decliners and sustainers

    Sandu-Giuraniuc, A., Waiter, G. D., Habota, T., Younie, D. A., McNeil, C. J., McIntosh, A. M., Murray, A. D.
    SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting 2019
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts

  • Insulin resistance: Genetic associations with depression and cognition in population based cohorts

    Frangou, S., Shirali, M., Adams, M. J., Howard, D. M., Gibson, J., Hall, L. S., Smith, B. H., Padmanabhan, S., Murray, A. D., Porteous, D. J., Haley, C. S., Deary, I. J., Clarke, T., McIntosh, A. M.
    Experimental Neurology, vol. 316, pp. 20-26
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Multi-ancestry genome-wide gene-smoking interaction study of 387,272 individuals identifies novel loci associated with serum lipids

    Bentley, A. R., Sung, Y. J., Brown, M. R., Winkler, T. W., Kraja, A. T., Ntalla, I., Schwander, K., Chasman, D. I., Lim, E., Deng, X., Guo, X., Liu, J., Lu, Y., Cheng, C., Sim, X., Vojinovic, D., Huffman, J. E., Musani, S. K., Li, C., Feitosa, M. F., Richard, M. A., Noordam, R., Baker, J., Chen, G., Aschard, H., Bartz, T. M., Ding, J., Dorajoo, R., Manning, A. K., Rankinen, T., Smith, A. V., Tajuddin, S. M., Zhao, W., Graff, M., Alver, M., Boissel, M., Chai, J. F., Chen, X., Divers, J., Evangelou, E., Gao, C., Goel, A., Hagemeijer, Y., Harris, S. E., Hartwig, F. P., He, M., Horimoto, A. R. V. R., Hsu, F., Hung, Y., Murray, A. D., COGENT-Kidney Consortium
    Nature Genetics, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 636-648
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • An epigenetic score for BMI based on DNA methylation correlates with poor physical health and major disease in the Lothian Birth Cohort

    Hamilton, O. K. L., Zhang, Q., McRae, A. F., Walker, R. M., Morris, S. W., Redmond, P., Campbell, A., Murray, A. D., Porteous, D. J., Evans, K. L., McIntosh, A. M., Deary, I. J., Marioni, R. E.
    International Journal of Obesity, vol. 43, pp. 1795-1802
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • New genetic signals for lung function highlight pathways and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease associations across multiple ancestries

    Shrine, N., Guyatt, A. L., Erzurumluoglu, A. M., Jackson, V. E., Hobbs, B. D., Melbourne, C. A., Batini, C., Fawcett, K. A., Song, K., Sakornsakolpat, P., Li, X., Boxall, R., Reeve, N. F., Obeidat, M., Zhao, J. H., Wielscher, M., Weiss, S., Kentistou, K. A., Cook, J. P., Sun, B. B., Zhou, J., Hui, J., Karrasch, S., Imboden, M., Harris, S. E., Marten, J., Enroth, S., Kerr, S. M., Surakka, I., Vitart, V., Lehtimäki, T., Allen, R. J., Bakke, P. S., Beaty, T. H., Bleecker, E. R., Bossé, Y., Brandsma, C., Chen, Z., Crapo, J. D., Danesh, J., DeMeo, D. L., Dudbridge, F., Ewert, R., Gieger, C., Gulsvik, A., Hansell, A. L., Hao, K., Hoffman, J. D., Hokanson, J. E., Murray, A., Understanding Society Scientific Group
    Nature Genetics, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 481-493
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Imprinting methylation in SNRPN and MEST1 in adult blood predicts cognitive ability

    Lorgen-Ritchie, M., Murray, A. D., Ferguson-Smith, A. C., Richards, M., Horgan, G. W., Phillips, L. H., Hoad, G., Gall, I., Harrison, K., McNeill, G., Ito, M., Haggarty, P.
    PloS ONE, vol. 14, no. 2, e0211799
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The association between polypharmacy and late life deficits in cognitive, physical and emotional capability: a cohort study

    Khezrian, M., McNeil, C. J., Myint, P. K., Murray, A. D.
    International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 251-257
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The Neurobiology of Personal Control During Reward Learning and Its Relationship to Mood

    Romaniuk, L., Sandu-Giuraniuc, A., Waiter, G. D., McNeil, C. J., Xueyi, S., Harris, M. A., Macfarlane, J. A., Lawrie, S. M., Deary, I. J., Murray, A. D., Delgardo, M. R., Steele, J. D., McIntosh, A. M., Whalley, H. C.
    Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 190-199
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Multi-ancestry study of blood lipid levels identifies four loci interacting with physical activity

    Kilpeläinen, T. O., Bentley, A. R., Noordam, R., Sung, Y. J., Schwander, K., Winkler, T. W., Jakupović, H., Chasman, D. I., Manning, A., Ntalla, I., Aschard, H., Brown, M. R., de las Fuentes, L., Franceschini, N., Guo, X., Vojinovic, D., Aslibekyan, S., Feitosa, M. F., Kho, M., Musani, S. K., Richard, M., Wang, H., Wang, Z., Bartz, T. M., Bielak, L. F., Campbell, A., Dorajoo, R., Fisher, V., Hartwig, F. P., Horimoto, A. R. V. R., Li, C., Lohman, K. K., Marten, J., Sim, X., Smith, A. V., Tajuddin, S. M., Alver, M., Amini, M., Boissel, M., Chai, J. F., Chen, X., Divers, J., Evangelou, E., Gao, C., Graff, M., Harris, S. E., He, M., Hsu, F., Jackson, A. U., Zhao, J. H., Kraja, A. T., Kühnel, B., Laguzzi, F., Lyytikäinen, L., Nolte, I. M., Rauramaa, R., Riaz, M., Robino, A., Rueedi, R., Stringham, H. M., Takeuchi, F., van der Most, P. J., Varga, T. V., Verweij, N., Ware, E. B., Wen, W., Li, X., Yanek, L. R., Amin, N., Arnett, D. K., Boerwinkle, E., Brumat, M., Cade, B., Canouil, M., Chen, Y. I., Concas, M. P., Connell, J., de Mutsert, R., de Silva, H. J., de Vries, P. S., Demirkan, A., Ding, J., Eaton, C. B., Faul, J. D., Friedlander, Y., Gabriel, K. P., Ghanbari, M., Giulianini, F., Gu, C. C., Gu, D., Harris, T. B., He, J., Heikkinen, S., Heng, C., Hunt, S. C., Ikram, M. A., Jonas, J. B., Koh, W., Komulainen, P., Krieger, J. E., Kritchevsky, S. B., Kutalik, Z., Kuusisto, J., Langefeld, C. D., Langenberg, C., Launer, L. J., Leander, K., Lemaitre, R. N., Lewis, C. E., Liang, J., Alizadeh, B. Z., Boezen, H. M., Franke, L., Navis, G., Rots, M., Swertz, M., Wolffenbuttel, B. H. R., Wijmenga, C., Liu, J., Mägi, R., Manichaikul, A., Meitinger, T., Metspalu, A., Milaneschi, Y., Mohlke, K. L., Mosley, T. H., Murray, A. D., Nalls, M. A., Nang, E. K., Nelson, C. P., Nona, S., Norris, J. M., Nwuba, C. V., O’Connell, J., Palmer, N. D., Papanicolau, G. J., Pazoki, R., Pedersen, N. L., Peters, A., Peyser, P. A., Polasek, O., Porteous, D. J., Poveda, A., Raitakari, O. T., Rich, S. S., Risch, N., Robinson, J. G., Rose, L. M., Rudan, I., Schreiner, P. J., Scott, R. A., Sidney, S. S., Sims, M., Smith, J. A., Snieder, H., Sofer, T., Starr, J. M., Sternfeld, B., Strauch, K., Tang, H., Taylor, K. D., Tsai, M. Y., Tuomilehto, J., Uitterlinden, A. G., van der Ende, M. Y., van Heemst, D., Voortman, T., Waldenberger, M., Wennberg, P., Wilson, G., Xiang, Y., Yao, J., Yu, C., Yuan, J., Zhao, W., Zonderman, A. B., Becker, D. M., Boehnke, M., Bowden, D. W., de Faire, U., Deary, I. J., Elliott, P., Esko, T., Freedman, B. I., Froguel, P., Gasparini, P., Gieger, C., Kato, N., Laakso, M., Lakka, T. A., Lehtimäki, T., Magnusson, P. K. E., Oldehinkel, A. J., Penninx, B. W. J. H., Samani, N. J., Shu, X., van der Harst, P., Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, J. V., Vollenweider, P., Wagenknecht, L. E., Wang, Y. X., Wareham, N. J., Weir, D. R., Wu, T., Zheng, W., Zhu, X., Evans, M. K., Franks, P. W., Gudnason, V., Hayward, C., Horta, B. L., Kelly, T. N., Liu, Y., North, K. E., Pereira, A. C., Ridker, P. M., Tai, E. S., van Dam, R. M., Fox, E. R., Kardia, S. L. R., Liu, C., Mook-Kanamori, D. O., Province, M. A., Redline, S., van Duijn, C. M., Rotter, J. I., Kooperberg, C. B., Gauderman, W. J., Psaty, B. M., Rice, K., Munroe, P. B., Fornage, M., Cupples, L. A., Rotimi, C. N., Morrison, A. C., Rao, D. C., Loos, R. J. F., Study, L. C.
    Nature Communications, vol. 10, no. 1, 376
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Cortical Thickness and Surface Area Networks in Healthy Aging, Alzheimer’s Disease and Behavioral Variant Fronto-Temporal Dementia

    Vuksanovic, V., Staff, R. T., Ahearn, T., Murray, A. D., Wischik, C. M.
    International Journal of Neural Systems, vol. 29, no. 6, 1850055
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Transancestral GWAS of alcohol dependence reveals common genetic underpinnings with psychiatric disorders

    Walters, R. K., Polimanti, R., Johnson, E. C., McClintick, J. N., Adams, M. J., Adkins, A. E., Aliev, F., Bacanu, S., Batzler, A., Bertelsen, S., Biernacka, J. M., Bigdeli, T. B., Chen, L., Clarke, T., Chou, Y., Degenhardt, F., Docherty, A. R., Edwards, A. C., Fontanillas, P., Foo, J. C., Fox, L., Frank, J., Giegling, I., Gordon, S., Hack, L. M., Hartmann, A. M., Hartz, S. M., Heilmann-Heimbach, S., Herms, S., Hodgkinson, C., Hoffmann, P., Jan Hottenga, J., Kennedy, M. A., Alanne-Kinnunen, M., Konte, B., Lahti, J., Lahti-Pulkkinen, M., Lai, D., Ligthart, L., Loukola, A., Maher, B. S., Mbarek, H., McIntosh, A. M., McQueen, M. B., Meyers, J. L., Milaneschi, Y., Palviainen, T., Pearson, J. F., Peterson, R. E., Murray, A. D., 23andMe Research Team
    Nature Neuroscience, vol. 21, no. 12, pp. 1656-1669
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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