FRSE
Emeritus Professor
- About
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- 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) Medicine1985 - University of Aberdeen
- MRCP Medicine1988 - Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow
- FRCR Radiology1992 - Royal College of Radiologists UK
- PhD Medical Sciences2013 - 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
Neuroepidemiology, vol. 59, no. 5, pp. 489-497Contributions to Journals: ArticlesFDG-PET Image Classification in Alzheimer’s Disease: from Traditional Visual Analysis to Advanced Transfer Learning
Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, vol. 59, pp. 201-208Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40385367/
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13139-025-00908-2
Myelin mapping in patients with rheumatoid arthritis-related fatigue: a TBSS-MTR study of integrity
BJR Open, vol. 7, no. 1, tzaf014Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjro/tzaf014
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Phantom study investigating the repeatability of radiomic features with alteration of image acquisition parameters in magnetic resonance imaging
Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 19-28Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmir.2023.10.003
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The genetic basis of endometriosis and comorbidity with other pain and inflammatory conditions
Nature Genetics, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 423-436Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-023-01323-z
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Prizes and Awards
FRSE (2017-)
- Research
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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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A comparison of measurement methods of hippocampal atrophy rate for predicting Alzheimer's dementia in the Aberdeen Birth Cohort of 1936
Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, vol. 6, pp. 31-39Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAssessing the presence of shared genetic architecture between Alzheimer's disease and major depressive disorder using genome-wide association data
Translational Psychiatry, vol. 7, e1094Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDistinct anatomical subtypes of behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia and involvement of intrinsic brain networks: a clustering study
Alzheimer Research UK (2017)Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsGenome-wide haplotype-based association analysis of major depressive disorder in Generation Scotland and UK Biobank
Translational Psychiatry, vol. 7, 1263Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHaplotype-based association analysis of general cognitive ability in Generation Scotland, the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, and UK Biobank
Wellcome open research, vol. 2, pp. 1-13Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA new biomarker classification system for AD, independent of cognition: Agnosticism is a start
Neurology, vol. 87, no. 5, pp. 456-457Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000002931
Late-life deficits in cognitive, physical and emotional functions, childhood intelligence and occupational profile: a life-course examination of the Aberdeen 1936 Birth Cohort (ABC1936)
Age and Ageing, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 486-493Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afw061
What can imaging tell us about cognitive impairment and dementia?
World journal of radiology, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 240-254Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBrain hyperintensity location determines outcome in the triad of impaired cognition, physical health and depressive symptoms: A cohort study in late life
Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, vol. 63, pp. 49-54Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCerebral correlates of cognitive reserve
Psychiatry Research, vol. 247, pp. 65-70Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNeural correlates of cognitive and behavioural impairments in behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia: A voxel based morphometry analysis
SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting (2016)Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsPhenothiazine compounds for treating mild cognitive impairment
Patents: PatentsFuzzy approximate entropy analysis of resting state fMRI signal complexity across the adult life span
Medical Engineering & Physics, vol. 37, no. 11, pp. 1082-1090Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA longitudinal study of cognitive and hippocampal ageing in late life
British Neuroscience Association, 2015 Festival of NeuroscienceContributions to Conferences: AbstractsAge Related Changes in Cerebrovascular Reactivity and Its Relationship to Global Brain Structure
British Journal of Medicine & Medical Research, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 809-820Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMapping the cortical complexity and cognitive decline in late life
Alzheimer's research UK 2015Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsPhysical disease and resilient outcomes: a systematic review of resilience definitions and study methods
Psychosomatics, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 168-180Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTau Aggregation Inhibitor Therapy: An Exploratory Phase 2 Study in Mild or Moderate Alzheimer's Disease
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 705-720Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNeural correlates of fatigue in granulomatosis with polyangiitis: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study
Rheumatology, vol. 53, no. 11, pp. 2080-2087Contributions to Journals: ArticlesStructural brain complexity and cognitive decline in late life: A longitudinal study in the Aberdeen 1936 Birth Cohort
Neuroimage, vol. 100, pp. 558-563Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAge-, and gender-specific incidence of vascular parkinsonism, progressive supranuclear palsy, and parkinsonian-type multiple system atrophy in North East Scotland: The PINE study
Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, vol. 20, no. 8, pp. 834-839Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA longitudinal study of human brain complexity and cognitive decline in ageing
Organization of Human Brain Mapping meeting (OHBM)Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsNonlinear complexity analysis of brain FMRI signals in schizophrenia
PloS ONE, vol. 9, no. 5, e95146Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEarly Life Socioeconomic Circumstance and Late Life Brain Hyperintensities: A Population Based Cohort Study
PloS ONE, vol. 9, no. 2, e88969Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHomocysteine, antioxidant micronutrients and late onset dementia
European Journal of Nutrition, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 277-285Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-013-0526-6