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Professor Alison Murray

Professor Alison Murray
Professor Alison Murray
Professor Alison Murray

FRSE

Emeritus Professor

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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) Medicine 
    1985 - 51cg 
  • MRCP Medicine 
    1988 - Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow 
  • FRCR Radiology 
    1992 - Royal College of Radiologists UK 
  • PhD Medical Sciences 
    2013 - 51cg 

    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

  • Brain Perivascular Space Morphometry Reflects Shared Familial Microvascular Architecture and Neuropsychiatric Influences

    Morozova, A., Valdés Hernández, M. d. C., Duarte Coello, R., Whalley, H., McIntosh, A., Sandu Giuraniuc, A., Waiter, G. D., McNeil, C. J., Steele, J. D., Macfarlane, J. A., Murray, A., Wardlaw, J. M.
    Stroke
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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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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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • AI could be our radiologists of the future, amid a healthcare staff crisis

    Murray, A.
    The Conversation
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  • 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
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