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Lynne Murray is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and medicine, with significant contributions to clinical psychology, education, public health, environmental and occupational health, social psychology, and developmental and educational psychology.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Child and Animal Learning Development

Lynne Murray has published in several respected journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Infant Mental Health Journal
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Child Development

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Sculpting Culture: Early Maternal Responsiveness and Child Emotion Regulation - A UK-Italy Comparison" (2020), Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • "First 1,000 days: enough for mothers but not for children? Long-term outcomes of an early intervention on maternal depressed mood and child cognitive development: follow-up of a randomised controlled trial" (2021), Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • "Book-Sharing for Parenting and Child Development in South Africa: A Randomized Controlled Trial" (2021), Child Development
  • "The role of maternal anxiety disorder subtype, parenting and infant stable temperamental inhibition in child anxiety: a prospective longitudinal study" (2020), Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • "Effects of training parents in dialogic book-sharing: The Early-Years Provision in Children's Centers (EPICC) study" (2022), Early Childhood Research Quarterly

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Peter Cooper
  • Leonardo De Pascalis
  • Laura Bozicevic
  • Mark Tomlinson
  • Sarah Skeen

Best Publications

  • The impact of postnatal depression and associated adversity on early mother-infant interactions and later infant outcome.

    Lynne Murray;Agnese Fiori-Cowley;Richard Hooper;Peter Cooper

  • The impact of postnatal depression on infant development.

    Lynne Murray

  • The Validation of the Edinburgh Post-natal Depression Scale on a Community Sample

    Lynne Murray;Andrew D. Carothers

  • Postpartum depression and child development

    Lynne Murray;Peter J. Cooper

  • The Socioemotional Development of 5‐year‐old Children of Postnatally Depressed Mothers

    Lynne Murray;Dana Sinclair;Peter Cooper;Pierre Ducournau

  • Post-partum depression and the mother-infant relationship in a South African peri-urban settlement

    Peter J. Cooper;Mark Tomlinson;Leslie Swartz;Matthew Woolgar

  • Depression in Men in the Postnatal Period and Later Child Psychopathology: A Population Cohort Study

    Paul G. Ramchandani;Alan Stein;Thomas G. O'connor;Jon Heron

  • Association of Persistent and Severe Postnatal Depression With Child Outcomes.

    Elena Netsi;Rebecca M. Pearson;Lynne Murray;Lynne Murray;Lynne Murray;Peter Cooper;Peter Cooper;Peter Cooper

  • Fortnightly review: Postnatal depression

    Peter J Cooper;Lynne Murray

  • Maternal postnatal depression and the development of depression in offspring up to 16 years of age

    Lynne Murray;Adriane Arteche;Pasco Fearon;Sarah L Halligan

  • Maternal depression and psychiatric outcomes in adolescent offspring: a 13-year longitudinal study.

    Sarah L. Halligan;Lynne Murray;Carla Martins;Peter J. Cooper

  • Effects of postnatal depression on infant development

    Lynne Murray;Peter J Cooper

  • Improving quality of mother-infant relationship and infant attachment in socioeconomically deprived community in South Africa : randomised controlled trial

    Peter J Cooper;Mark Tomlinson;Leslie Swartz;Mireille Landman

  • Depressed Mothers' Speech to Their Infants and its Relation to Infant Gender and Cognitive Development

    Lynne Murray;Claire Kempton;Matthew Woolgar;Richard Hooper

  • Controlled trial of the short- and long-term effect of psychological treatment of post-partum depression. I. Impact on maternal mood

    Peter J Cooper;Lynne Murray;Anji Wilson;Helena Romaniuk

  • Controlled trial of the short- and long-term effect of psychological treatment of post-partum depression: 2. Impact on the mother-child relationship and child outcome.

    Lynne Murray;Peter J Cooper;Anji Wilson;Helena Romaniuk

  • The development of anxiety disorders in childhood: an integrative review

    L. Murray;C. Creswell;P. J. Cooper

  • The Cognitive Development of 5-Year-Old Children of Postnatally Depressed Mothers

    Lynne Murray;Alison Hipwell;Richard Hooper;Alan Stein

  • Exposure to postnatal depression predicts elevated cortisol in adolescent offspring

    Sarah L Halligan;Joe Herbert;Ian M Goodyer;Lynne Murray

  • The role of infant factors in postnatal depression and mother-infant interactions

    Lynne Murray;Charlie Stanley;Richard Hooper;Fiona King

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. Cooper
Peter J. Cooper University of Reading
Alan Stein
Alan Stein University of Oxford
Sarah L. Halligan
Sarah L. Halligan University of Bath
Cathy Creswell
Cathy Creswell University of Oxford
Paul Ramchandani
Paul Ramchandani University of Cambridge
Pier Francesco Ferrari
Pier Francesco Ferrari Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Pasco Fearon
Pasco Fearon University College London
Ian M. Goodyer
Ian M. Goodyer University of Cambridge
Alison E. Hipwell
Alison E. Hipwell University of Pittsburgh
Michelle G. Craske
Michelle G. Craske University of California, Los Angeles

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