Anne Murphy

University of Cincinnati BS 1985 Psychology
University of Colorado Masters 1987 Behavioral Genetics
University of Cincinnati Ph.D. 1992 Behavioral Neurosci.
University of Maryland Postdoctoral 1995 Neurobiology

Behavioral Neuroscience, Neuroendocrinology, Developmental Neuroscience, Neuroanatomy, Sex Differences, Neuroimmunology

Dr. Anne Z. Murphy joined the faculty of Georgia State University in 2003, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Neuroscience Institute. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati in 1992 under the guidance of Dr. Michael Behbehani (Dept. Physiology). She then completed postdoctoral fellowships in Behavioral Neuroanatomy with Dr. Michael Shipley at the Univ. Maryland, Baltimore and in Behavioral Neuroendocrinology with Dr. Gert Holstege at the Rijksuniversitiet in the Netherlands. Before joining the faculty at Georgia State University, Dr. Murphy was a Research Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Murphy’s research focuses on the impact of sex and age on pain and opiate responsiveness as well as the impact of early life experience on adult pain and stress responsiveness. She uses a wide variety of techniques from molecular to behavioral to describe how pain alters brain activity and synaptic plasticity. The goal of this work is to elucidate the mechanisms whereby age, sex and early life experience alter opioidergic circuits within the CNS. She has received numerous research grants from the National Institutes of Health to support her work. Dr. Murphy is also on the editorial board of several journals, reviews grants regularly for NIH and NSF, and is the Associate Director of the Neuroscience Institute. When not doing science, Dr. Murphy loves to hang out on the beach with her husband and kids.