Dr. Natalia Albein Urios
Lecturer, Psychology
Natalia completed her PhD in Neuropsychology and Neurocognition (2012), with training at the University of Cambridge and the University of California, San Diego. Her thesis was awarded the University of Granada’s Special Prize for Best Thesis in Medicine and Health Sciences.
After moving to Australia, she worked at the Melbourne Children’s Hospital (University of Melbourne) before being awarded a Health Doctoral Fellowship at Deakin University, where she led a clinical trial on non-invasive brain stimulation for neurodevelopmental disorders. Her research has focused on novel brain stimulation approaches targeting the prefrontal cortex to reduce perseveration and emotion regulation difficulties in autism, while also continuing her work on addiction using multimodal neuroscience techniques.
She is currently a Lecturer in Psychology at Federation University, passionate about teaching and research in mental health and cognitive neuroscience.
Areas of expertise:
Autism spectrum disorder and anorexia nervosa: Investigating the behavioural and neurocognitive overlap
Trialing addiction neurocircuitry targets and directionality of brain stimulation effects: A deep TMS/fMRI trial in people with alcohol use disorder
Analyzing Dropout in Alcohol Recovery Programs: A Machine Learning Approach
An Investigation of Age-related Neuropathophysiology in Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Fixel-based Analysis of Corpus Callosum White Matter Micro- and Macrostructure
A systematic review of the neurobiological effects of theta-burst stimulation (TBS) as measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
Computational modelling of reinforcement learning and functional neuroimaging of probabilistic reversal for dissociating compulsive behaviours in gambling and cocaine use disorders
Exploring the role of autistic traits and eating disorder psychopathology on mentalising ability in the general population
Prefrontal anodal High Definition-tDCS has limited effects on emotion regulation
A single- and paired-pulse TMS-EEG investigation of the N100 and long interval cortical inhibition in autism spectrum disorder
Brain networks alterations in cocaine use and gambling disorders during emotion regulation
Anodal HD-tDCS for cognitive inflexibility in autism spectrum disorder: A pilot study
Do comorbid personality disorders in cocaine dependence exacerbate neuroanatomical alterations? A structural neuroimaging study
Inner Speech Moderates the Relationship Between Autism Spectrum Traits and Emotion Regulation
Is the Putative Mirror Neuron System Associated with Empathy? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Large-scale analysis of interindividual variability in single and paired-pulse TMS data
Meta-Analysis Reveals Gait Anomalies in Autism
Gait abnormalities are frequently reported in autism. The empirical literature, however, is...
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in autism spectrum disorder: Protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled clinical trial
Special issue on vulnerabilities to substance abuse impulsivity traits and neurocognitive mechanisms conferring vulnerability to substance use disorders
Magstim 2002 and Bistim Mode maximum stimulus output values are not equivalent: Configuration selection is critical
The Effect of Visual Articulatory Information on the Neural Correlates of Non-native Speech Sound Discrimination
The neural interface between negative emotion regulation and motivation for change in cocaine dependent individuals under treatment
Unpacking common and distinct neuroanatomical alterations in cocaine dependent versus pathological gambling
Dysfunctional personality beliefs linked to emotion recognition deficits in individuals with cocaine addiction and personality disorders
Increased perseverative errors following high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation over the ventrolateral cortex during probabilistic reversal learning
Neuropsychological Interventions for Decision-Making in Addiction: a Systematic Review
Self-awareness deficits associated with lower treatment motivation in cocaine addiction
The Potential of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Consensus Statement
Autism Spectrum Traits Linked with Reduced Performance on Self-Report Behavioural Measures of Cognitive Flexibility
Brain substrates of social decision-making in dual diagnosis: cocaine dependence and personality disorders
Cathodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) to the Right Cerebellar Hemisphere Affects Motor Adaptation During Gait
Decisional balance and processes of change in community-recruited with moderate-high versus mild severity of cannabis dependence
Neural correlates of impaired self-awareness of apathy, disinhibition and dysexecutive deficits in cocaine-dependent individuals
Overall prognosis of preschool autism spectrum disorder diagnoses
Trait and neurobiological underpinnings of negative emotion regulation in gambling disorder
Using non-invasive transcranial stimulation to improve motor and cognitive function in Parkinson's disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Diagnosing autism: Australian paediatric research network surveys
Increased corticolimbic connectivity in cocaine dependence versus pathological gambling is associated with drug severity and emotion-related impulsivity
New technologies in clinical neuroscience
Cocaine-specific neuroplasticity in the ventral striatum network is linked to delay discounting and drug relapse
Cocaine use severity and cerebellar gray matter are associated with reversal learning deficits in cocaine-dependent individuals
Neural substrates of cognitive flexibility in cocaine and gambling addictions
Variables of clinical interest in the cognitive behavioral treatment of cocaine addiction: The specificity of personality disorders; [Variables de interés clínico en el tratamiento cognitivo-conductual de la adicción a la cocaína: Especificidad de los tra
Decision-making impairment predicts 3-month hair-indexed cocaine relapse
Differential aspects of treatment dropout risk in cocaine dependent patients with and without personality disorders; [Aspectos diferenciales del riesgo de abandono al inicio del tratamiento de la adicción a la cocaína en pacientes con trastornos de la per
Executive functions in cocaine-dependent patients with cluster B and cluster C personality disorders
Monetary delay discounting in gambling and cocaine dependence with personality comorbidities
Prefrontal gray matter and motivation for treatment in cocaine-dependent individuals with and without personality disorders
Re-appraisal of negative emotions in cocaine dependence: Dysfunctional corticolimbic activation and connectivity
The value of impulsivity to define subgroups of addicted individuals differing in personality dysfunction, craving, psychosocial adjustment, and wellbeing: A latent class analysis
A MAOA gene*cocaine severity interaction on impulsivity and neuropsychological measures of orbitofrontal dysfunction: Preliminary results
Cocaine users with comorbid Cluster B personality disorders show dysfunctional brain activation and connectivity in the emotional regulation networks during negative emotion maintenance and reappraisal
Frontal systems related symptoms in cocaine dependent patients with comorbid personality disorders
Negative urgency, disinhibition and reduced temporal pole gray matter characterize the comorbidity of cocaine dependence and personality disorders
Comparison of impulsivity and working memory in cocaine addiction and pathological gambling: Implications for cocaine-induced neurotoxicity
Effects of a multicomponent behavioral intervention on impulsivity and cognitive deficits in adolescents with excess weight
Psychoeducation as a strategy to improve family support perceived from patient with alcohol dependence and personality disorder; [La psicoeducación como estrategia para mejorar el apoyo familiar percibido del paciente con dependencia al alcohol y trastorn
Preliminary study for the validation of the Spanish version of the personality belief Questionnaire; [Estudio preliminar para la validación de la versión española del Personality Belief Questionnaire]