Declan Murphy

Declan Murphy

Professor of Psychiatry and Brain Maturation



Biography:

Head of Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences

Director of Behavioural and Developmental Clinical Academic Group, Kings Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre

Mortimer D Sackler Professor of Translational and Developmental Neurosciences

Director of Mortimer D Sackler Centre for Translational and Developmental Neurosciences

Head of the Section of Brain Maturation, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London.

Professor Murphy’s main research interest is in the biological determinants of brain development and ageing, and how abnormalities in this process lead to neuropsychiatric disorders.

Links:

KCL PURE: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/declan.murphy.html

All publications:

2019

Pretzsch CM, Freyberg J, Voinescu B, Lythgoe D, Horder J, Mendez MA, Wichers R, Ajram L, Ivin G, Heasman M, Edden RAE, Williams S, Murphy DGM, Daly E, McAlonan GM (2019) Effects of cannabidiol on brain excitation and inhibition systems; a randomised placebo-controlled single dose trial during magnetic resonance spectroscopy in adults with and without autism spectrum disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology

2018

Tillmann J, Ashwood K, Absoud M, Bölte S, Bonnet-Brilhault F, Buitelaar JK, Calderoni S, Calvo R, Canal-Bedia R, Canitano R, De Bildt A, Gomot M, Hoekstra PJ, Kaale A, McConachie H, Murphy DG, Narzisi A, Oosterling I, Pejovic-Milovancevic M, Persico AM, Puig O, Roeyers H, Rommelse N, Sacco R, Scandurra V, Stanfield AC, Zander E, Charman T (2018) Evaluating Sex and Age Differences in ADI-R and ADOS Scores in a Large European Multi-site Sample of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. J Autism Dev Disord

2017

Ecker C, Schmeisser MJ, Loth E, Murphy DG (2017) Neuroanatomy and Neuropathology of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Humans. Adv Anat Embryol Cell Biol 224: 27-48

2014

Murphy DG, Goldman M, Loth E, Spooren W (2014) Public-private partnership: a new engine for translational research in neurosciences. Neuron 84: 533-6

2013

Lai MC, Lombardo MV, Suckling J, Ruigrok AN, Chakrabarti B, Ecker C, Deoni SC, Craig MC, Murphy DG, Bullmore ET, Baron-Cohen S, Bailey AJ, Baron-Cohen S, Bolton PF, Bullmore ET, Carrington S, Catani M, Chakrabarti B, Craig MC, Daly EM, Deoni SC, Ecker C, Happé F, Henty J, Jezzard P, Johnston P, Jones DK, Lai MC, Lombardo MV, Madden A, Mullins D, Murphy CM, Murphy DG, Pasco G, Ruigrok AN, Sadek SA, Stewart R, Suckling J, Wheelwright SJ, Williams SC (2013) Biological sex affects the neurobiology of autism. Brain 136: 2799-815

2012

Daly EM, Deeley Q, Ecker C, Craig M, Hallahan B, Murphy C, Johnston P, Spain D, Gillan N, Brammer M, Giampietro V, Lamar M, Page L, Toal F, Cleare A, Surguladze S, Murphy DG (2012) Serotonin and the neural processing of facial emotions in adults with autism: an fMRI study using acute tryptophan depletion. Arch Gen Psychiatry 69: 1003-13

2011

Blasi A, Mercure E, Lloyd-Fox S, Thomson A, Brammer M, Sauter D, Deeley Q, Barker GJ, Renvall V, Deoni S, Gasston D, Williams SC, Johnson MH, Simmons A, Murphy DG (2011) Early specialization for voice and emotion processing in the infant brain. Curr Biol 21: 1220-4