Prof. Lynne Murray – University of Reading (UK)
Prof. Murray’s research is focused on the functional architecture of early parent-child relationships, their relation to child development, and the development of interventions. This includes research on parental postnatal depression and anxiety disorder, infant child cleft lip and palate, and development under conditions of socio-economic adversity. Interventions include use of ‘book-sharing’
Recent publications
Meltzoff, A. N., Murray, L., Simpson, E., Heimann, M., Nagy, E., Nadel, J., Pedersen, E. J., Brooks, R., Messinger, D. S., De Pascalis, L., Subiaul, F., Paukner, A. and Ferrari, P. F. (2018) Re-examination of Oostenbroek et al. (2016): evidence for neonatal imitation of tongue protrusion. Developmental Science, 21 (4). e12609. ISSN 1363-755X doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12609
Murray, L., Bozicevic, L. B., Ferrari, P. F., Vaillancourt, K., Dalton, L., Goodacre, T., Chakrabarti, B., Bicknell, S., Cooper, P., Stein, A. and De Pascalis, L. (2018) The effects of maternal mirroring on the development of infant social expressiveness: the case of infant cleft lip. Neural Plasticity. ISSN 1687-5443
Netsi, E., Pearson, R. M., Murray, L., Cooper, P.J., Craske, M., Stein, A. (2018) Persistent and severe postnatal depression: its long term course and impact on child development JAMA Psychiatry 75(3) 247-253 doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2017.4363
Sethna, V., Murray, L., Edmondson, O., Iles, J. and Ramchandani, P. G. (2018) Depression and playfulness in fathers and young infants: a matched design comparison study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 229. pp. 364-370. ISSN 0165-0327 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2017.12.107
Stein, A., Netsi E. Lawrence, P.J., Granger, C., Kempton, C., Craske, M. Nickless, A., Mollison, J., Stewart, A., Rapa, E., West, V., Cooper, P. J., Murray,L (2018) Mitigating the impact of persistent postnatal depression on child outcomes: a randomized controlled trial of an intervention to treat depression and improve parenting. Lancet Psychiatry 5(2), 134–144 ISSN 2215-0366 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(18)30006-3
Barry T. J., Murray, L., Fearon, P., Moutsiana, C., Johnstone, T., Halligan, S. L. (2017) Amygdala volume and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis reactivity to social stress PNEC Psychoneuroendocrinology. 85:96-99. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2017.07.487
De Pascalis, L., Keli, N., Chakrabarti, B., Dalton, L., Vaillancourt, K., Rayson, H., Bicknell, S Goodacre, T. Cooper, P.J.,., H., Stein, A., & Murray, L., (2017) Maternal gaze to the infant face: effects of infant age and facial configuration during mother-infant engagement in the first nine weeks Infant Behavior and Development. 46, 91-99 ISSN 0163-6383 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2016.12.003
Murray, L., Sclafani, V. Rayson, H., De Pascalis, L., Bozicevic, L., Ferrari, P. F. (2017) Beyond aerodigestion: exaptation of feeding-related mouth movements for social communication in human and non-human primates Commentary on Keven & Akins, Behavioral and Brain Sciences doi:10.1017/S0140525X16001941, e397
Rayson, H., Bonaiuto, J.J., Ferrari, P-F., Murray, L. (2017) Early maternal mirroring predicts infant motor system activation during facial expression observation. Scientific Reports| 7: 11738 | DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-12097-w
Murray, L., De Pascalis, L., Bozicevic, L., Hawkins, L., Sclafani, V., Ferrari P.F. (2016) The functional architecture of mother-infant communication, and the development of infant social expressiveness in the first two months. Scientific Reports 6:39019 | DOI: 10.1038/srep39019
Murray, L., De Pascalis, L., Tomlinson, M., Vally, Z., Dadomo, H., MacLachlan,B., Woodward, C., Cooper, P.J. (2016) Randomized controlled trial of a book-sharing intervention in a deprived South African community: effects on carer-infant interactions, and their relation to infant cognitive and socio-emotional outcome. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 57.12, 1370-1.DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.12605