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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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  • Picture quiz: The role of neuroimaging in dementia

    Murray, A. D.
    Imaging, vol. 23, no. 1, 20120012
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • What is the role of neuroimaging in dementia

    Narayanan, L., Murray, A. D.
    Imaging, vol. 23, no. 1, 20120015
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Variance in brain volume with advancing age: implications for defining the limits of normality

    Dickie, D. A., Job, D. E., Gonzalez, D. R., Shenkin, S. D., Ahearn, T. S., Murray, A. D., Wardlaw, J. M.
    PloS ONE, vol. 8, no. 12, e84093
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Clinical relevance and practical implications of trials of perfusion and angiographic imaging in patients with acute ischaemic stroke: a multicentre cohort imaging study

    Wardlaw, J. M., Muir, K. W., MacLeod, M. J., Weir, C., McVerry, F., Carpenter, T., Shuler, K., Thomas, R., Acheampong, P., Dani, K., Murray, A.
    Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, vol. 84, no. 9, pp. 1001-1007
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Fatigue-related brain white matter changes in granulomatosis with polyangiitis

    Basu, N., Murray, A. D., Jones, G. T., Reid, D. M., Macfarlane, G. J., Waiter, G. D.
    Rheumatology, vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 1429-1434
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Age-, gender-, and socioeconomic status-specific incidence of Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism in North East Scotland: The PINE study

    Caslake, R., Taylor, K., Scott, N., Gordon, J., Harris, C., Wilde, K., Murray, A., Counsell, C.
    Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 515-521
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Depressive symptoms in late life and cerebrovascular disease: the importance of intelligence and lesion location

    Murray, A. D., Staff, R. T., McNeil, C. J., Salarirad, S., Phillips, L. H., Starr, J., Deary, I. J., Whalley, L. J.
    Depression and Anxiety, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 77-84
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Genetic and environmental factors in late onset dementia: possible role for early parental death

    Whalley, L. J., Staff, R. T., Murray, A. D., Deary, I. J., Starr, J. M.
    International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 75-81
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Interview: Imaging in cognitive aging and dementia

    Murray, A.
    Imaging in Medicine, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 601-604
    Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates

  • Imaging Approaches for Dementia

    Murray, A. D.
    American Journal of Neuroradiology, vol. 33, no. 11, pp. 1836-1844
    Contributions to Journals: Literature Reviews

  • Brain structural complexity and life course cognitive change

    Mustafa, N., Ahearn, T. S., Waiter, G. D., Murray, A. D., Whalley, L. J., Staff, R. T.
    Neuroimage, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 694-701
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Do brain image databanks support understanding of normal ageing brain structure?: A systematic review

    Dickie, D. A., Job, D. E., Poole, I., Ahearn, T. S., Staff, R. T., Murray, A. D., Wardlaw, J. M.
    European Radiology, vol. 22, no. 7, pp. 1385-1394
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Anticholinergic drugs in late life: adverse effects on cognition but not on progress to dementia

    Whalley, L. J., Sharma, S., Fox, H. C., Murray, A. D., Staff, R. T., Duthie, A. C., Deary, I. J., Starr, J. M.
    Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 253-261
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Childhood socioeconomic status and adult brain size: Childhood socioeconomic status influences adult hippocampal size

    Staff, R. T., Murray, A. D., Ahearn, T. S., Mustafa, N., Fox, H. C., Whalley, L. J.
    Annals of Neurology, vol. 71, no. 5, pp. 653-660
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Brain lesions, hypertension and cognitive aging in the 1921 and 1936 Aberdeen birth cohorts

    Murray, A. D., Staff, R. T., McNeil, C. J., Salarirad, S., Starr, J. M., Deary, I. J., Whalley, L. J.
    Age, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 451-459
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Preface to Neuroimaging Clinics of North America: Imaging in Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias

    Murray, A. D.
    Neuroimaging Clinics of North America, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. xiii-xiv
    Contributions to Journals: Editorials

  • Imaging in Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias

    Murray, A. D. (ed.)
    Vol. 22, Elsevier
    Books and Reports: Books

  • The balance between cognitive reserve and brain imaging biomarkers of cerebrovascular and Alzheimer's diseases

    Murray, A. D., Staff, R. T., McNeil, C. J., Salarirad, S., Ahearn, T. S., Mustafa, N., Whalley, L. J.
    Brain, vol. 134, no. 12, pp. 3687-3696
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Inter-individual differences in fMRI entropy measurements in old age

    Sokunbi, M. O., Staff, R. T., Waiter, G. D., Ahearn, T. S., Fox, H. C., Deary, I. J., Starr, J. M., Whalley, L. J., Murray, A. D.
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 58, no. 11, pp. 3206-3214
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Partial recovery from amnesia following bilateral surgical fornix transection is correlated with cortical plasticity

    Mazarakis, N. K., Summers, F., Murray, A. D., Waiter, G. D., Fouyas, I. P.
    British Journal of Neurosurgery, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 658-661
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Regional cerebral blood flow and aberrant motor behaviour in Alzheimer's disease

    Reilly, T. J., Staff, R. T., Ahearn, T. S., Bentham, P., Wischik, C. M., Murray, A. D.
    Behavioural Brain Research, vol. 222, no. 2, pp. 375-379
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Childhood intelligence and brain white matter hyperintensities predict fluid intelligence age 78-81 years: a 1921 Aberdeen birth cohort study

    Salarirad, S., Staff, R. T., Fox, H. C., Deary, I. J., Whalley, L., Murray, A. D.
    Age and Ageing, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 562-567
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • How the 1932 and 1947 mental surveys of Aberdeen schoolchildren provide a framework to explore the childhood origins of late onset disease and disability

    Whalley, L. J., Murray, A. D., Staff, R. T., Starr, J. M., Deary, I. J., Fox, H. C., Lemmon, H., Duthie, S. J., Collins, A. R., Crawford, J. R.
    Maturitas, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 365-372
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Cerebellar brain volume accounts for variance in cognitive performance in older adults

    Hogan, M. J., Staff, R. T., Bunting, B. P., Murray, A. D., Ahearn, T. S., Deary, I. J., Whalley, L. J.
    Cortex, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 441-450
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The cerebral blood flow correlates of emotional facial processing in mild Alzheimer's disease

    Staff, R., Ahearn, T. S., Phillips, L. H., Cooper, C. L., Mowat, D., Wischik, C. M., Whalley, L. J., Murray, A. D.
    Neuroscience & Medicine, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 6-13
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Between- and within-scanner variability in the CaliBrain study n-back cognitive task

    Gradin, V., Gountouna, V., Waiter, G., Ahearn, T. S., Brennan, D., Condon, B., Marshall, I., McGonigle, D. J., Murray, A. D., Whalley, H., Cavanagh, J., Hadley, D., Lymer, K., McIntosh, A., Moorhead, T. W., Job, D., Wardlaw, J., Lawrie, S. M., Steele, J. D.
    Psychiatry Research, vol. 184, no. 2, pp. 86-95
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Brain volume and survival from age 78 to 85: the contribution of Alzheimer-type magnetic resonance imaging findings

    Staff, R. T., Murray, A. D., Ahearn, T., Salarirad, S., Mowat, D., Starr, J. M., Deary, I. J., Lemmon, H., Whalley, L. J.
    Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 688-695
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) reproducibility and variance components across visits and scanning sites with a finger tapping task

    Gountouna, V., Job, D. E., McIntosh, A. M., Moorhead, T. W. J., Lymer, G. K. L., Whalley, H. C., Hall, J., Waiter, G. D., Brennan, D., McGonigle, D. J., Ahearn, T. S., Cavanagh, J., Condon, B., Hadley, D. M., Marshall, I., Murray, A. D., Steele, D., Wardlaw, J. M., Lawrie, S. M.
    Neuroimage, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 552-560
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • ESMRMB 2009 Congress, Antalya, Turkey, 1–3 October: Abstracts, Friday: Reproducibility of hippocampus and amygdala volume measures using the FSL tool FIRST: a multi centre perspective

    Cameron, G. G., Ahearn, T., Salarirad, S., Waiter, G. D., Staff, R. T., Lymer, K., Gountouna, V., Lawrie, S., Brennan, D., Moorhead, T., Condon, B., Steele, D., Wardlaw, J., Murray, A. D.
    Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 157-158
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Approximate entropy fMRI differences associated with cognitive decline

    Roijals Miras, J., Staff, R., Waiter, G. D., Murray, A. D., Fox, H. C., Starr, J., Deary, I. J., Whalley, L.
    Neuroimage, vol. 47, no. Supplement 1, pp. S102
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Shape analysis of 123I-N-ω-fluoropropyl-2-β-carbomethoxy-3β-(4-iodophenyl) nortropane single-photon emission computed tomography images in the assessment of patients with parkinsonian syndromes

    Staff, R. T., Ahearn, T. S., Wilson, K., Counsell, C. E., Taylor, K., Caslake, R., Davidson, J. E., Gemmell, H. G., Murray, A. D.
    Nuclear Medicine Communications, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 194-201
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • White matter lesions and endothelial dysfunction measured by pulse wave analysis

    Soiza, R., Hoyle, G., Murray, A. D., Prasad, D., Seymour, D., Williams, D.
    Geriatrics and Gerontology International, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 209-211
    Contributions to Journals: Letters

  • Imaging in Dementia

    Murray, A. D.
    Imaging, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 133-141
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Increased sensitivity after repeated stimulation of residual spatial channels in blindsight

    Sahraie, A., Trevethan, C. T., MacLeod, M. J., Murray, A. D., Olson, J. A., Weiskrantz, L.
    PNAS, vol. 103, no. 40, pp. 14971-14976
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Identifying observational studies of surgical interventions in MEDLINE and EMBASE

    Fraser, C., Murray, A., Burr, J.
    BMC Medical Research Methodology, vol. 6, 41
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Generality and specificity in cognitive aging: a volumetric brain analysis

    Staff, R. T., Murray, A. D., Deary, I. J., Whalley, L. J.
    Neuroimage, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 1433-1440
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Neural mechanisms of imitation and ‘mirror neuron’ functioning in autistic spectrum disorder

    Williams, J. H. G., Waiter, G. D., Gilchrist, A., Perrett, D. I., Murray, A. D., Whiten, A.
    Neuropsychologia, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 610-621
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer: Systematic reviews and economic evaluation

    Murray, A. D., Lourenco, T., De Verteuil, R., Hernández, R. A., Fraser, C. M., McKinley, A., Krukowski, Z., Vale, L. D., Grant, A. M.
    Southampton, United Kingdom: NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme. 162 pages
    Books and Reports: Commissioned Reports

  • Is chest radiography triage in the investigation of suspected pulmonary embolism helpful?

    Denison, A. R., Brooks, M., Murray, A. D., Davidson, J.
    Nuclear Medicine Communications, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 297
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A55 A rCBF study of hallucinations in dementia.

    Staff, R. T., Benjamin, K. D., Murray, A. D., Gemmell, H. G., Wischik, C. M.
    Nuclear Medicine Communications, vol. 27, no. 3, 295
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Femoral head viability after birmingham resurfacing hip arthroplasty: Assessment with use of [F-18] fluoride positron emission tomography

    Forrest, N., Welch, A., Murray, A. D., Schweiger, L., Hutchison, J., Ashcroft, G. P.
    Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (US Volume), vol. 88A, no. Suppl 3, pp. 84-89
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Practical Nuclear Medicine

    Sharp, P. F., Gemmell, H., Murray, A. D.
    Springer Verlag. 382 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • The Brain, Salivary and Lacrimal Glands

    Murray, A. D.
    Practical Nuclear Medicine. Sharp, P. F., Gemmell, H. G., Murray, A. D. (eds.). 3rd edition. Springer Verlag, pp. 231-244, 15 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Brain white matter hyperintensities: Relative importance of different vascular risk factors in non-demented elderly people

    Murray, A. D., Staff, R. T., Shenkin, S. D., Deary, I. J., Starr, J. M., Whalley, L. J.
    Radiology, vol. 237, no. 1, pp. 251-257
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Isolated sulphite oxidase deficiency mimics the features of hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy

    Hobson, E. E., Thomas, S., Crofton, P. M., Murray, A. D., Dean, J., Lloyd, D. J.
    European Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 164, no. 11, pp. 655-669
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Structural white matter deficits in high-functioning individuals with autistic spectrum disorder: a voxel-based investigation

    Waiter, G. D., Williams, J. H. G., Murray, A. D., Gilchrist, A., Perrett, D. I., Whiten, A.
    Neuroimage, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 455-461
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • FPCIT.net: a web based archive for use with 123I ioflupane

    Staff, R. T., Murray, A. D., Ahearn, T. S., Counsell, C. E., Taylor, K. S. M., Wilson, K., Gemmell, H. ..
    Nuclear Medicine Communications, vol. 26, P38
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • The Brain

    Murray, A. D.
    Practical Nuclear Medicine. Gemmell, H., Sharp, P., Murray, A. (eds.). Springer Verlag
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • A voxel-based investigation of brain structure in male adolescents with autistic spectrum disorder

    Waiter, G. D., Williams, J. H. G., Murray, A. D., Gilchrist, A., Perrett, D. I., Whiten, A.
    Neuroimage, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 619-625
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • What provides cerebral reserve?

    Staff, R. T., Murray, A. D., Deary, I. J., Whalley, L. J.
    Brain, vol. 127, no. 5, pp. 1191-1199
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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