Donna Murdaugh

Donna Murdaugh
Assistant Professor

Member (C), Institute for Cancer Outcomes & Survivorship , School of Medicine
Associate Scientist (C), O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center , School of Medicine
Assistant Professor (S), Radiation Oncology , School of Medicine
Associate Scientist, Cancer Control and Population Sciences , O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center
Associate Scientist (C), Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) , General Clinical Research Center
Assistant Professor (P), Pediatric - Hematology-Oncology , Pediatrics
Associate Scientist (C), Civitan International Research Center , Academic Joint Departments

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
2022	Processing efficiency in pediatric cancer survivors: A review and operationalization for outcomes research and clinical utility. Brain and Behavior. 12. 2022
2022	Quantifying and reporting outcome measures in pediatric epilepsy surgery: A systematic review. Epilepsia. 63:2754-2781. 2022
2022	Inflammation, Executive Function, and Adiposity in Children With or at Risk for Obesity: A Pilot Study.. Journal of Pediatric Psychology. 2022
2022	The association between sleep disturbances and neurocognitive function in pediatric sickle cell disease. Sleep Medicine. 97:27-35. 2022
2022	Prevalence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and intellectual disability among children with hydrocephalus. Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics. 30:188-194. 2022
2022	Clinical Presentation, Risk Factors, and Outcomes of Immune Effector Cell-Associated Neurotoxicity Syndrome Following Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy: A Systematic Review 2022
2022	Longitudinal changes in patient-reported cognitive complaints among older adults with gastrointestinal malignancies — results from the Cancer and Aging Resilience Evaluation (CARE) Registry. Journal of Cancer Survivorship. 2022
2021	Brain Glucose Metabolism is Reduced After Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer 2021
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 - Erratum.. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. 24:890. 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. Applied neuropsychology. Adult. 23:151-153. 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