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Overview

Natalia Lawrence is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with a strong focus on clinical psychology and public health. The subfields of their work include applied psychology, physiology, and cognitive neuroscience. Lawrence's publications concentrate on topics related to eating disorders and behaviors, obesity, physical activity, and diet, with additional work addressing behavioral health interventions, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, COVID-19 and mental health, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, and agriculture sustainability and environmental impact.

Their frequent coauthors include Elanor C. Hinton, Julian Hamilton-Shield, Jeffrey M. Brunstrom, Jennifer S. Cox, and Elisa Becker. Lawrence has published extensively in several scientific venues, most notably in Appetite, where they have 25 publications. Other common publication venues include Frontiers in Psychology, Royal Society Open Science, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, and Digital Health.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Lawrence cover a range of topics on inhibitory control training, eating behaviors, and dietary intake. These include:

  • Food-related inhibitory control training reduces food liking but not snacking frequency or weight in a large healthy adult sample (2021, Appetite)
  • App-based food-specific inhibitory control training as an adjunct to treatment as usual in binge-type eating disorders: A feasibility trial (2021, Appetite)
  • App-based food Go/No-Go training: User engagement and dietary intake in an opportunistic observational study (2021, Appetite)
  • Meat disgust is negatively associated with meat intake - Evidence from a cross-sectional and longitudinal study (2021, Appetite)
  • The impact of COVID-19 on the eating habits of families engaged in a healthy eating pilot trial: a thematic analysis (2022, Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine)

Best Publications

  • Distinct Neural Correlates of Washing, Checking, and Hoarding Symptom Dimensions in Obsessive-compulsive Disorder

    David Mataix-Cols;Sarah Wooderson;Natalia Lawrence;Michael J. Brammer

  • The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

    Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

  • Cortical abnormalities in bipolar disorder : An MRI analysis of 6503 individuals from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group

    D P Hibar;L T Westlye;L T Westlye;N T Doan;N T Doan;N Jahanshad

  • Subcortical and ventral prefrontal cortical neural responses to facial expressions distinguish patients with bipolar disorder and major depression.

    Natalia S Lawrence;Andrew M Williams;Simon Surguladze;Vincent Giampietro

  • Gamification of Cognitive Assessment and Cognitive Training: A Systematic Review of Applications and Efficacy

    Jim A Lumsden;Elizabeth A. Edwards;Natalia S. Lawrence;David Coyle

  • Subcortical volumetric abnormalities in bipolar disorder

    D. P. Hibar;L. T. Westlye;L. T. Westlye;T. G. M. van Erp;J. Rasmussen

  • Decision making and set shifting impairments are associated with distinct symptom dimensions in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Natalia S. Lawrence;Sarah Wooderson;David Mataix-Cols;Rhodri David

  • Cognitive mechanisms of nicotine on visual attention.

    Natalia Sophie Lawrence;Thomas J. Ross;Elliot A. Stein

  • Multiple Neuronal Networks Mediate Sustained Attention

    Natalia S. Lawrence;Thomas J. Ross;Ray Hoffmann;Hugh Garavan

  • Distinct Roles of Prefrontal Cortical Subregions in the Iowa Gambling Task

    Natalia Sophie Lawrence;Natalia Sophie Lawrence;Fabrice Jollant;Fabrice Jollant;Owen O'Daly;Fernando Zelaya

  • Orbitofrontal Cortex Response to Angry Faces in Men With Histories of Suicide Attempts

    Fabrice Jollant;Natalia Sophie Lawrence;Vincent Giampietro;Michael J. Brammer

  • Decreased activation of lateral orbitofrontal cortex during risky choices under uncertainty is associated with disadvantageous decision-making and suicidal behavior

    Fabrice Jollant;Natalia Sophie Lawrence;Natalia Sophie Lawrence;Emilie Olie;Owen O'Daly

  • Training response inhibition to food is associated with weight loss and reduced energy intake.

    Natalia S. Lawrence;Jamie O'Sullivan;David Parslow;Mahmood Javaid

  • Neural response to specific components of fearful faces in healthy and schizophrenic adults.

    Joaquim Radua;Mary Louise Phillips;Mary Louise Phillips;Tamara Russell;Natalia Lawrence

  • Nucleus accumbens response to food cues predicts subsequent snack consumption in women and increased body mass index in those with reduced self-control

    Natalia Sophie Lawrence;Elanor Clare Hinton;Elanor Clare Hinton;John A. Parkinson;Andrew David Lawrence

  • To discard or not to discard: the neural basis of hoarding symptoms in obsessive-compulsive disorder

    S. K. An;David Mataix-Cols;N. S. Lawrence;Sarah Wooderson

  • An investigation of decision making in anorexia nervosa using the Iowa Gambling Task and skin conductance measurements

    Kate Tchanturia;Pei-Chi Liao;Rudolf Uher;Natalia Lawrence

  • Ventral striatum activity in response to reward: differences between bipolar I and II disorders.

    Xavier Caseras;Natalia Sophie Lawrence;Kevin Murphy;Richard Geoffrey Wise

  • Stopping to food can reduce intake. Effects of stimulus-specificity and individual differences in dietary restraint

    Natalia Sophie Lawrence;Natalia Sophie Lawrence;Fredrick Verbruggen;Sinead Morrison;Rachel Charlotte Adams

  • Cognitive training as a potential treatment for overweight and obesity: A critical review of the evidence.

    Andrew Jones;Charlotte A. Hardman;Natalia Lawrence;Matt Field

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary L. Phillips
Mary L. Phillips University of Pittsburgh
Christopher D. Chambers
Christopher D. Chambers Cardiff University
Frederick Verbruggen
Frederick Verbruggen Ghent University
Vincent Giampietro
Vincent Giampietro King's College London
David Mataix-Cols
David Mataix-Cols Karolinska Institute
Anne E. M. Speckens
Anne E. M. Speckens Radboud University
Marcus R. Munafò
Marcus R. Munafò University of Bath
Fabrice Jollant
Fabrice Jollant University of Paris-Saclay
Xavier Caseras
Xavier Caseras Cardiff University
Roel A. Ophoff
Roel A. Ophoff University of California, Los Angeles

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