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

Selected Publications:

Pote I, Wang S, Sethna V, Blasi A, Daly E, Kuklisova-Murgasova M, Lloyd-Fox S, Mercure E, Busuulwa P, Stoencheva V, Charman T, Williams SCR, Johnson MH, Murphy DGM, McAlonan GM (2019) Familial risk of autism alters subcortical and cerebellar brain anatomy in infants and predicts the emergence of repetitive behaviors in early childhood. Autism Res

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

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
Howes OD, Rogdaki M, Findon JL, Wichers RH, Charman T, King BH, Loth E, McAlonan GM, McCracken JT, Parr JR, Povey C, Santosh P, Wallace S, Simonoff E, Murphy DG (2017) Autism spectrum disorder: Consensus guidelines on assessment, treatment and research from the British Association for Psychopharmacology. J Psychopharmacol