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Biography
Antonio currently holds the position of Professor (Research) in the School of Psychological Sciences and the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University. He is also an NHMRC Leadership Fellow, and the Co-Chair of the Neuroscience Interest Group at the International Society of Addiction Medicine. He has an Adjunct Honorary Appointment in Turning Point (Eastern Health).
Antonio has a PhD in Psychology (University of Granada, 2006), and a Masters in Psychological and Biomedical Aspects of Health and Illness (University of Granada, 2002). He subsequently took on postdoctoral training in addiction neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, US), the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK) and the Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mediques (Barcelona, Spain). He was then appointed as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at the University of Granada before joining Monash in 2012.
Antonio's research focuses on the cognitive and neural mechanisms underpinning executive control and decision-making, and their implications for substance and behavioural addictions, compulsive eating and obesity. He has published > 290 peer-reviewed articles, edited a book on Cognition & Addiction (Academic Press, 2020), and his research has been continuously funded via national and international competitive research schemes. His work has attracted over 17,000 citations. He sits on the Editorial Board of the journals: Addiction (#1 in the Substance Abuse category of the Journal Citation Reports rank), PLoS One, The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Current Addiction Reports, and Adicciones.
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Research area keywords
- addiction
- obesity
- substance abuse
- impulsivity
- decision making
- executive function
- reward
- emotion processing
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AAT-APP Trial: A RCT of alcohol approach-avoidance training to reduce heavy drinking in people with alcohol use disorders
Manning, V., Verdejo-Garcia, A., Lubman, D., Staiger, P. K., Garfield, J., Reynolds, J., de New, S., Wiers, R., Argent, A. & Clancy, C.
1/01/23 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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Linking clinical and basic science discovery to find new treatments for alcohol use disorder
Haber, P. S., Morley, K., Lawrence, A., Manning, V., Lubman, D., McNally, G. P., Millan, Z., Arunogiri, S., Verdejo-Garcia, A., Walker, L., Logge, W., Ogeil, R., Leggio, L., Kranzler, H., Baillie, A., Grunstein, R. R., Perry, C. J. & Bonomo, Y.
3/02/22 → 31/12/26
Project: Research
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Top down cortical control of hypothalamic feeding circuits
Andrews, Z., Verdejo-Garcia, A., Foldi, C., Li, Y. & Kravitz, A.
1/01/22 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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Decoding the drivers of food choices towards sustainable self-management of obesity
1/01/22 → 31/12/26
Project: Research
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MiSmartHeart: Compliance and behavioural modification post myocardial infarction (MI)
Verdejo-Garcia, A., Liew, D. & Fatehi, F.
1/01/20 → 31/03/24
Project: Research
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Cognitive inflexibility and repetitive habitual actions are associated with problematic use of the internet
Raj, K., Segrave, R., Verdéjo-Garcia, A. & Yücel, M., Apr 2023, In: Addictive Behaviors. 139, 7 p., 107600.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Combining novel trait and neurocognitive frameworks to parse heterogeneity in borderline personality disorder
Hanegraaf, L., Paton, B., Hohwy, J. & Verdejo-Garcia, A., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Personality. 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Episodic future thinking and compassion reduce non-compliance urges regarding public health guidelines: a randomised controlled trial
van Baal, S. T., Verdejo-García, A. & Hohwy, J., Dec 2023, In: BMC Public Health. 23, 1, 10 p., 189.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Identification of a Stress-Sensitive Anorexigenic Neurocircuit From Medial Prefrontal Cortex to Lateral Hypothalamus
Clarke, R. E., Voigt, K., Reichenbach, A., Stark, R., Bharania, U., Dempsey, H., Lockie, S. H., Mequinion, M., Lemus, M., Wei, B., Reed, F., Rawlinson, S., Nunez-Iglesias, J., Foldi, C. J., Kravitz, A. V., Verdejo-Garcia, A. & Andrews, Z. B., 15 Feb 2023, In: Biological Psychiatry. 93, 4, p. 309-321 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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The relationship between sleep and appetitive conditioning: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Kavaliotis, E., Boardman, J. M., Clark, J. W., Ogeil, R. P., Verdejo-García, A. & Drummond, S. P. A., Jan 2023, In: Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 144, 15 p., 105001.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review