Dr Susannah Murphy
Senior Postdoctoral Researcher

Susannah is a senior postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. She completed a D.Phil. at the University of Oxford in 2007, funded by The Wellcome Trust, and an MSc in Neuroscience, also at Oxford University. Her undergraduate degree (MA in Psychology) was at the University of St Andrews.  She has also worked in a range of clinical settings as an Assistant Clinical Psychologist and an Auxiliary Psychiatric nurse.  As a result of this broad training, she is able to apply a range of approaches and techniques to her research, including cognitive neuroscience, brain imaging, genetics and psychopharmacology. 

Susannah's research centres around integrating psychological and neurophysiological accounts of psychiatric disorders, such as depression and anxiety. More specifically, she combines cognitive models with psychopharmacological and neuroimaging approaches to examine the way in which the brain processes emotional information and how this might be altered in these disorders.  Recently, she has been investigating the effects of anxiety during pregnancy on the development of maternal reactivity to infant distress.  She has also been continuing her research looking at the effects of antidepressants on emotional processing and has been using magnetoencephalography (MEG) to address outstanding questions about the temporal characteristics of the effect of antidepressants on emotional processing. 

Contact

E: susannah.murphy@psych.ox.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 1865 226395