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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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  • 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
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