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Positions

Assistant Professor

Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Neuropsychiatry
ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ of Medicine
Houston, Texas

Education

Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Houston, Texas, United States

Neuropsychiatry

Postdoctoral Training at Newcastle University

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Neuroscience, Neuropsychiatry

PhD from Newcastle University

03/2016 - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

MSc from The University of York

01/2013 - York, United Kingdom

BSc from Bangor University

08/2011 - Bangor, United Kingdom

Postdoctoral Fellowship at ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ of Medicine

Houston, Texas

Neuropsychiatry

Websites

Selected Publications

• Nicholas Murphy; Nithya Ramakrishnan; Christopher P. Walker; Nicola R. Polizzotto;Raymond Y. Cho. " " Frontiers in Psychiatry. 2020 ;
• Aadith Vittala; Nicholas Murphy; Atul Maheshwari; Vaishnav Krishnan. " " Front. Neurosci. 2020 ;
• Nithya Ramakrishnan; Nicholas Murphy; Christopher Walker; Valeria Cuellar Leal; Jair Soares; Raymond Cho; Sudhakar Selvaraj. " " Chronic Stress. 2019 ;
• Firbank, M.J*., Parikh, J*., Murphy, N.R.E., Killen, A., Allan, C., Collerton, D., Blamire, A., Taylor, J.P.. " " Neurology. 2018 ;
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• Stylianou, M., Murphy, N.R.E., Peraza, L.R., Graziadio, S., Cromarty, R., Killen, A., O’Brien, J., Thomas, A., LeBeau, F., Taylor, J.P.. " " Clin Neurophysiol. 2018 ;
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• Walker, C.P.*, Pessoa, A.L.S.*, Figueiredo, T.*, Rafferty, M., Melo, U.S., Nóbrega, P.R., Murphy, N.R.E, Kok, F., Zatz, M., Santos, S., Cho, R.Y.. " " 2019 ;
• Davey, J., Rueschemeyer, S.A., Costigan, A., Murphy, N.R.E., Krieger-Redwood, K., Hallam, G., Jefferies, B.. " " Brain Lang. 2015 ;
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• Nicholas Murphy, Nithya Ramakrishnan, Bylinda Vo-Le, Brittany Vo-Le, Mark A. Smith, Tabish Iqbal, Alan C. Swann, Sanjay J. Mathew & Marijn Lijffijt. " " Neuropsychopharmacology. 2020 Dec ;
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• O'Brien B, Lijffijt M, Lee J, Kim YS, Wells A, Murphy N, Ramakrishnan N, Swann AC, Mathew SJ.. " " J Affect Disord. 2021 May 1;
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• Murphy N, Lijffijt M, Ramakrishnan N, Vo-Le B, Vo-Le B, Iqbal S, Iqbal T, O'Brien B, Smith MA, Swann AC, Mathew SJ.. " " Braz J Psychiatry. 2021 Apr 5;
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• Murphy N, Killen A, Graziadio S, Rochester L, Firbank M, Allan C, Collerton D, Taylor J, Urwyler P.. " " Frontiers Neurology. 2021 ;
• Ramakrishnan.N, Lijffijt.M, Green.C, Balderston.B, Murphy.N, Grillon.C, Iqbal.T, Vo-Le.B, O’Brien.B, Murrough.J, Swann.A, Mathew.SJ.. " " Depress Anxiety. 2021 Jul 12;
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• Murphy, N.. " " 2015 ;
• Murphy, N.R.E., Graziadio, S., & Taylor, JP.. " " 2015 ;
• Nicholas Murphy, PhD. " " Biological Psychiatry. 2023 Sep 15; 94 (6) : 443-444.

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Memberships

American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology

Anxiety and Depression Association of America

Funding

A Pilot Study to Determine the Safety, Tolerability, and Feasibility of Imaging AMPA Receptors in PTSD

(07/01/2022 - 06/30/2023)

Grant funding from Caroline Wiess Law Fund for Research in Molecular Medicine

Gamma Oscillations as a Prognostic Marker for Ketamine Therapy in Treatment Resistant Depression
#1R21MH133198-01A1

(01/01/2024 - 12/31/2025)

Grant funding from NIMH

In this study we utilize a mechanistic clinical trial approach to evaluate the utility of ketamine induced gamma band potentiation to predict ketamine therapy clinical outcomes.

Behavioral Sensitization Underlying Misophonia and its Illness Course

(01/01/2022 - 12/31/2023)

Grant funding from The REAM Foundation - Misophonia Research Fund

In this study we examine behavioral sensitization using potentiated startle as a possible biological mechanism involved in misophonia and its illness course.

Skills

Electroencephalography (EEG)

Magnetoencephalography (MEG)

Neuromodulation

Use of magnetic and electrical stimulation for clinical and research purposes.

Neurophysiology

Matlab