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Xavier Noël is affiliated with the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium, focusing extensively on interdisciplinary research spanning psychology, neuroscience, and medicine. Their work intersects multiple subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, neurology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Their research primarily investigates neural and behavioral psychology studies, gambling behavior and treatments, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, mental health research topics, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, and psychosomatic disorders and their treatments.

Noël has published numerous papers in a variety of prominent scientific journals. Recent publications include:

  • Transcranial direct current stimulation combined with alcohol cue inhibitory control training reduces the risk of early alcohol relapse: A randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial (2021, Brain Stimulation)
  • Winning and losing in online gambling: Effects on within-session chasing (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • The Role of the Posterior Cerebellum in Dysfunctional Social Sequencing (2021, The Cerebellum)
  • Predicting relapse in patients with severe alcohol use disorder: The role of alcohol insight and implicit alcohol associations (2020, Addictive Behaviors)
  • Behavioural expressions of loss-chasing in gambling: A systematic scoping review (2023, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Charles Kornreich
  • Salvatore Campanella
  • Armand Chatard
  • Florent Wyckmans
  • Némat Jaafari

Noël's work has been published mainly in journals such as Frontiers in Psychology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), PLoS ONE, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, and Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research. The recurring presence in these venues reflects their focus on advancing understanding in psychology and neuroscience fields.

Best Publications

  • A neurocognitive approach to understanding the neurobiology of addiction

    Xavier Noël;Damien Brevers;Antoine Bechara

  • Transcranial electrical and magnetic stimulation (tES and TMS) for addiction medicine: A consensus paper on the present state of the science and the road ahead

    Hamed Ekhtiari;Hosna Tavakoli;Giovanni Addolorato;Chris Baeken

  • IMPAIRED EMOTIONAL FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION IS ASSOCIATED WITH INTERPERSONAL PROBLEMS IN ALCOHOLISM

    Charles Kornreich;Pierre Philippot;Marie-Line Foisy;Sylvie Blairy

  • Iowa Gambling Task (IGT): twenty years after - gambling disorder and IGT.

    Damien Brevers;Antoine Bechara;Axel Cleeremans;Xavier Noël

  • Supervisory attentional system in nonamnesic alcoholic men.

    Xavier Noël;Martial Van der Linden;Nicolas Schmidt;Rita Sferrazza

  • Response inhibition deficit is involved in poor decision making under risk in nonamnesic individuals with alcoholism.

    Xavier Noël;Antoine Bechara;Bernard Dan;Catherine Hanak

  • Alcohol cues increase cognitive impulsivity in individuals with alcoholism.

    Xavier Noël;Martial Van der Linden;Mathieu d’Acremont;Antoine Bechara;Antoine Bechara

  • Time Course of Attention for Alcohol Cues in Abstinent Alcoholic Patients: The Role of Initial Orienting

    Xavier Noel;Maud Colmant;Martial Van der Linden;Antoine Bechara

  • CONTRIBUTION OF FRONTAL CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW MEASURED BY 99mTc-BICISATE SPECT AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTION DEFICITS TO PREDICTING TREATMENT OUTCOME IN ALCOHOL-DEPENDENT PATIENTS

    Xavier Noël;Rita Sferrazza;Martial Van der Linden;Jacques Paternot

  • Dissociation between affective and cognitive empathy in alcoholism: a specific deficit for the emotional dimension.

    Pierre Maurage;Delphine Grynberg;Xavier Noël;Frédéric Joassin

  • Impulsive action but not impulsive choice determines problem gambling severity

    Damien Brevers;Axel Cleeremans;Frederick Verbruggen;Antoine Bechara;Antoine Bechara

  • A Triadic Neurocognitive Approach to Addiction for Clinical Interventions

    Xavier Noël;Damien Brevers;Damien Brevers;Antoine Bechara

  • Deficits in recognition of emotional facial expression are still present in alcoholics after mid- to long-term abstinence.

    C Kornreich;Sylvie Blairy;P Philippot;U Hess

  • Major depression is associated with impaired processing of emotion in music as well as in facial and vocal stimuli.

    C. Naranjo;Charles Kornreich;Salvatore Campanella;Xavier Noël

  • Impaired Decision-Making Under Risk in Individuals with Alcohol Dependence

    Damien Brevers;Damien Brevers;Antoine Bechara;Axel Cleeremans;Charles Kornreich

  • Impaired emotional facial expression recognition in alcoholics, opiate dependence subjects, methadone maintained subjects and mixed alcohol-opiate antecedents subjects compared with normal controls.

    Charles Kornreich;Marie-Line Foisy;Pierre Philippot;Bernard Dan

  • Decision making under ambiguity but not under risk is related to problem gambling severity.

    Damien Brevers;Axel Cleeremans;Anna E. Goudriaan;Antoine Bechara;Antoine Bechara;Antoine Bechara

  • Loss of willpower: Abnormal neural mechanisms of impulse control and decision making in addiction

    Antoine Bechara;Xavier Noël;Eveline E.A. Crone

  • Alcohol-Related Context Modulates Performance of Social Drinkers in a Visual Go/No-Go Task: A Preliminary Assessment of Event-Related Potentials

    Géraldine H Petit;Charles Kornreich;Xavier Noël;Paul Verbanck

  • Time course of attentional bias for gambling information in problem gambling.

    Damien Brevers;Axel Cleeremans;Antoine Bechara;Cédric Laloyaux

  • Is the P300 deficit in alcoholism associated with early visual impairments (P100, N170)? An oddball paradigm.

    P Maurage;P Philippot;Paul Verbanck;Xavier Noël

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Verbanck
Paul Verbanck Université Libre de Bruxelles
Charles Kornreich
Charles Kornreich Université Libre de Bruxelles
Damien Brevers
Damien Brevers Université Catholique de Louvain
Salvatore Campanella
Salvatore Campanella Université Libre de Bruxelles
Antoine Bechara
Antoine Bechara University of Southern California
Axel Cleeremans
Axel Cleeremans Université Libre de Bruxelles
Martial Van der Linden
Martial Van der Linden University of Geneva
Pierre Maurage
Pierre Maurage Université Catholique de Louvain
Pierre Philippot
Pierre Philippot Université Catholique de Louvain
Frederick Verbruggen
Frederick Verbruggen Ghent University

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