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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

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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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  • Klotho, APOEε4, cognitive ability, brain size, atrophy and survival: A study in the Aberdeen Birth Cohort of 1936

    de Vries, C. F., Staff, R. T., Harris, S. E., Chapko, D., Williams, D. S., Reichert, P., Ahearn, T., McNeil, C. J., Whalley, L. J., Murray, A. D.
    Neurobiology of Aging, vol. 55, pp. 91-98
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Relationship between IQ at different ages and functional brain connectivity in healthy elders

    Sandu-Giuraniuc, A., Waiter, G. D., Habota, T., McNeil, C. J., McIntosh, A. M., Murray, A. D.
    SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting 2017
    Contributions to Conferences: Posters

  • Discovery of novel heart rate-associated loci using the Exome Chip

    van den Berg, M. E., Warren, H. R., Cabrera, C. P., Verweij, N., Mifsud, B., Haessler, J., Bihlmeyer, N. A., Fu, Y., Weiss, S., Lin, H. J., Grarup, N., Li-Gao, R., Pistis, G., Shah, N., Brody, J. A., Müller-Nurasyid, M., Lin, H., Mei, H., Smith, A. V., Lyytikäinen, L., Hall, L. M., van Setten, J., Trompet, S., Prins, B. P., Isaacs, A., Radmanesh, F., Marten, J., Entwistle, A., Kors, J. A., Silva, C. T., Alonso, A., Bis, J. C., de Boer, R., de Haan, H. G., de Mutsert, R., Dedoussis, G., Dominiczak, A. F., Doney, A. S. F., Ellinor, P. T., Eppinga, R. N., Felix, S. B., Guo, X., Hagemeijer, Y., Hansen, T., Harris, T. B., Heckbert, S. R., Huang, P. L., Hwang, S., Kähönen, M., Kanters, J. K., Kolcic, I., Launer, L. J., Li, M., Yao, J., Linneberg, A., Liu, S., Macfarlane, P. W., Mangino, M., Morris, A. D., Mulas, A., Murray, A. D., Nelson, C. P., Orrú, M., Padmanabhan, S., Peters, A., Porteous, D. J., Poulter, N., Psaty, B. M., Qi, L., Raitakari, O. T., Rivadeneira, F., Roselli, C., Rudan, I., Sattar, N., Sever, P., Sinner, M. F., Soliman, E. Z., Spector, T. D., Stanton, A. V., Stirrups, K. E., Taylor, K. D., Tobin, M. D., Uitterlinden, A., Vaartjes, I., Hoes, A. W., van der Meer, P., Völker, U., Waldenberger, M., Xie, Z., Zoledziewska, M., Tinker, A., Polasek, O., Rosand, J., Jamshidi, Y., van Duijn, C. M., Zeggini, E., Wouter Jukema, J., Asselbergs, F. W., Samani, N. J., Lehtimäki, T., Gudnason, V., Wilson, J., Lubitz, S. A., Kääb, S., Sotoodehnia, N., Caulfield, M. J., Palmer, C. N. A., Sanna, S., Mook-Kanamori, D. O., Deloukas, P., Pedersen, O., Rotter, J. I., Dörr, M., O'Donnell, C. J., Hayward, C., Arking, D. E., Kooperberg, C., van der Harst, P., Eijgelsheim, M., Stricker, B. H., Munroe, P. B.
    Human Molecular Genetics, vol. 26, no. 12, pp. 2346-2363
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Early Brain Development and Cognitive Ageing: A Global Challenge

    Chapko, D., Sandu-Giuraniuc, A., McNeil, C. J., Murray, A. D.
    Neuro Central
    Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates

  • Sexual dimorphism in changes of cortical complexity associated with cognitive decline in late life

    Sandu-Giuraniuc, A., Staff, R., McNeil, C. J., Stringer, M. S., Ahearn, T., Whalley, L., Murray, A. D.
    Alzheimer's Research UK
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts

  • A brain imaging repository of normal structural MRI across the life course: Brain Images of Normal Subjects (BRAINS)

    Job, D. E., Dickie, D. A., Rodriguez, D., Robson, A., Pernet, C., Bastin, M. E., Boardman, J. P., Murray, A. D., Ahearn, T., Waiter, G. D., Staff, R. T., Deary, I. J., Shenkin, S. D., Wardlaw, J. M.
    Neuroimage, vol. 144, no. Part B, pp. 299–304
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A comparison of measurement methods of hippocampal atrophy rate for predicting Alzheimer's dementia in the Aberdeen Birth Cohort of 1936

    Rana, A. K., Sandu, A., Robertson, K. L., McNeil, C. J., Whalley, L. J., Staff, R. T., Murray, A. D.
    Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, vol. 6, pp. 31-39
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Assessing the presence of shared genetic architecture between Alzheimer's disease and major depressive disorder using genome-wide association data

    Gibson, J., Russ, T. C., Adams, M. J., Clarke, T. K., Howard, D. M., Hall, L. S., Fernandez-Pujals, A. M., Wigmore, E. M., Hayward, C., Davies, G., Murray, A. D., Smith, B. H., Porteous, D. J., Deary, I. J., McIntosh, A. M.
    Translational Psychiatry, vol. 7, e1094
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Distinct anatomical subtypes of behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia and involvement of intrinsic brain networks: a clustering study

    Vuksanovic, V., Staff, R., Ahearn, T. S., Morson, S. M., Bentham, P., Murray, A. D., Wischik, C. M.
    Alzheimer Research UK (2017)
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts

  • Genome-wide haplotype-based association analysis of major depressive disorder in Generation Scotland and UK Biobank

    Howard, D. M., Hall, L. S., Hafferty, J. D., Zeng, Y., Adams, M. J., Clarke, T., Porteous, D. J., Nagy, R., Hayward, C., Smith, B. H., Murray, A. D., Ryan, N. M., Evans, K. L., Haley, C. S., Deary, I. J., Thomson, P. A., McIntosh, A. M.
    Translational Psychiatry, vol. 7, 1263
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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