Positions

Overview

  • Dr. Murdaugh is a board certified clinical neuropsychologist who is focused on research involving understanding and improving neurocognitive outcomes in pediatric and young adult cancer survivors. Dr. Murdaugh’s interests include: understanding long-term neurocognitive outcomes in cancer survivors utilizing neuropsychological assessment and multimodal neuroimaging, developing a risk prediction model to identify cancer patients at greatest risk for neurocognitive deficits, and developing targeted cognitive remediation interventions to improve cognitive functioning in cancer survivors.

    • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title Altmetric
    2021 Reduction in Late Mortality Among Patients With Multiple Myeloma Treated With Autologous Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation—A Blood or Marrow Transplant Survivor Study Report 2021
    2020 Patient-reported cognitive complaints in older adults with gastrointestinal malignancies at diagnosis– Results from the Cancer & Aging Resilience Evaluation (CARE) study.  Journal of Geriatric Oncology.  11:982-988. 2020
    2020 Self-endorsed cognitive problems versus objectively assessed cognitive impairment in blood or bone marrow transplantation recipients: A longitudinal study.  Cancer.  126:2174-2182. 2020
    2019 The efficacy of a pilot pediatric cognitive remediation summer program to prepare for transition of care.  Child Neuropsychology.  25:131-151. 2019
    2018 Brain dosimetry from locally advanced head and neck cancer radiotherapy: implications for neurocognitive outcomes research.  Acta Oncologica.  57:1589-1592. 2018
    2018 Longitudinal Changes in Resting State Connectivity and White Matter Integrity in Adolescents with Sports-Related Concussion.  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.  24:781-792. 2018
    2018 Differential recruitment of theory of mind brain network across three tasks: An independent component analysis.  Behavioural Brain Research.  347:385-393. 2018
    2018 Tracking of neurocognitive outcomes over time in children with perinatal stroke and associated complex medical conditions: a case series.  Neurocase.  24:195-203. 2018
    2018 Effects of Developmental Age on Symptom Reporting and Neurocognitive Performance in Youth After Sports-Related Concussion Compared to Control Athletes.  Journal of Child Neurology.  33:474-481. 2018
    2018 Assessment of Sleep Quantity and Sleep Disturbances During Recovery From Sports-Related Concussion in Youth Athletes..  Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.  99:960-966. 2018
    2018 Brain Mechanisms Underlying Reading the Mind from Eyes, Voice, and Actions.  Neuroscience.  374:172-186. 2018
    2017 Changes in intrinsic local connectivity after reading intervention in children with autism.  Brain and Language.  175:11-17. 2017
    2017 Differences in activation and deactivation in children with sickle cell disease compared with demographically matched controls.  American Journal of Neuroradiology.  38:1242-1247. 2017
    2017 “Decoding versus comprehension”: Brain responses underlying reading comprehension in children with autism.  Brain and Language.  169:39-47. 2017
    2017 From word reading to multisentence comprehension: Improvements in brain activity in children with autism after reading intervention.  NeuroImage: Clinical.  16:303-312. 2017
    2016 Review of Sports-Related Concussions in Youth: Improving the Science, Changing the Culture 2016
    2016 The Impact of Reading Intervention on Brain Responses Underlying Language in Children With Autism 2016
    2015 Changes in intrinsic connectivity of the brain's reading network following intervention in children with autism.  Human Brain Mapping.  36:2965-2979. 2015
    2014 Differential role of temporoparietal junction and medial prefrontal cortex in causal inference in autism: An independent component analysis.  Neuroscience Letters.  568:50-55. 2014
    2014 Functional brain connectivity in a child with autism with an enlarged cavum septum pellucidum.  Neuropsychiatry.  4:23-25. 2014
    2013 Greater impulsivity is associated with decreased brain activation in obese women during a delay discounting task 2013
    2012 Differential Deactivation during Mentalizing and Classification of Autism Based on Default Mode Network Connectivity.  PLoS ONE.  7. 2012
    2012 Brain responses mediating idiom comprehension: Gender and hemispheric differences.  Brain Research.  1467:18-26. 2012
    2012 FMRI reactivity on a delay discounting task predicts weight gain in obese women.  Appetite.  58:582-592. 2012
    2012 FMRI reactivity to high-calorie food pictures predicts short- and long-term outcome in a weight-loss program.  NeuroImage.  59:2709-2721. 2012
    2011 Probing the brain in autism using FMRI and diffusion tensor imaging..  Journal of Visualized Experiments.  2011
    2011 Motivation for palatable food despite consequences in an animal model of binge eating.  International Journal of Eating Disorders.  44:203-211. 2011
    2011 Probing the brain in autism using fMRI and diffusion tensor imaging.  Journal of Visualized Experiments.  2011
    2009 The Pavlovian power of palatable food: Lessons for weight-loss adherence from a new rodent model of cue-induced overeating.  International Journal of Obesity.  33:693-701. 2009

    Education And Training

  • Emory University School of Medicine Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham 2015
  • Bachelor of Science or Mathematics in Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham 2008

    • Full Name

  • Donna Murdaugh