Professor Greg Murray
Professor
Jaw Function and Oro-facial Pain Unit,
Faculty of Dentistry
Phone: +61 2 9845 6380
Fax: +61 2 9633 2893
Email: gregm@usyd.edu.au
C24 - Westmead Hospital
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
About Greg
Greg Murray is a Professor in the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Sydney. He graduated from the University of Sydney in 1980 and spent 4 years involved in research in the then Department of Prosthetic Dentistry and obtained his MDS and FRACDS.
He then travelled to Toronto, Canada and completed a PhD with Professor Barry Sessle, also a graduate of Sydney University. His PhD work focussed on the cerebral cortical control of orofacial movements and was carried out in awake behaving monkeys. He returned to take up a Senior Lecturer's position at Sydney University in 1990 and at the same time engaged in research on the neurophysiological aspects of somatosensory sensation.
He has published 54 research papers in refereed, international journals, 10 book chapters and 120 conference abstracts. He is a member of a number of societies including the Society for Neuroscience; the Australian Dental Association; the Dental Alumni Society of the University of Sydney; and the International Association for Dental Research.
Faculty Titles and Offices
- Professor
- Honours Co-ordinator
- Chair, BDent Block 14
Teaching Areas
- Occlusion
- Removable prosthodontics
- Orofacial pain
Projects Undertaken and Underway
- The normal function of the human lateral pterygoid muscle
- Effects of experimental jaw muscle pain on jaw muscle activity and jaw movement in humans
- Effects of clinical jaw muscle pain on jaw muscle activity and jaw movement in humans
- FMRI of orofacial pain
Research Interests
- Dentistry
- Jaw movement and function
- Chewing
- Somatosensory neurophysiology
- Orofacial pain
- Removable prosthodontics
- Occlusion
- Oral health
Selected Publications
- MURRAY GM, PHANACHET I, UCHIDA S, WHITTLE T Invited Focus Article: The role of the human lateral pterygoid muscle in the control of horizontal jaw movements. Journal of Orofacial Pain 15; 279-292, 2001. 7
- MURRAY GM, PHANACHET I, WHITTLE T, UCHIDA S. Review article: The human lateral pterygoid muscle: a review of some experimental aspects and possible clinical relevance. Australian Dental Journal, 49; 2-8, 2004. Abstracted in Year Book of Dentistry, Mosby 2004.
- PHANACHET I, WHITTLE T, WANIGARATNE K, KLINEBERG IJ, SESSLE BJ, MURRAY GM. Functional heterogeneity in superior head of human lateral pterygoid. Journal of Dental Research, 82; 106-111, 2003.
- PHANACHET I, WHITTLE T, WANIGARATNE K, MURRAY GM. Functional properties of single motor units in inferior head of human lateral pterygoid muscle: task relations and threshold. Journal of Neurophysiology, 86; 2204-2218, 2001. 4
- HUANG BY, WHITTLE T, MURRAY GM. Activity of inferior head of human lateral pterygoid muscle during standardized lateral jaw movements. Archives of Oral Biology, 50(1):49-64, 2005.
- RUANGSRI S, WHITTLE T, WANIGARATNE K, MURRAY GM. Functional Activity of Superior Head of Human Lateral Pterygoid Muscle during Isometric Force. Journal of Dental Research, 84; 548-553, 2005.
- HUANG BY, WHITTLE T, PECK CC, MURRAY GM. Ipsilateral Interferences and Working-Side Condylar Movements. Archives of Oral Biology, in press, July 19th 2005.
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