Antonio Verdejo-Garcia

Biographic Data

ID	1936168
NAME	Antonio Verdejo-Garcia
GIVEN NAMES	Antonio
FAMILY NAME	Verdejo-Garcia
SIGNATURE	VERDEJO-GARCIA A
AFFILIATIONS	Monash University
ORCID	0000-0001-8874-9339
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	29
TOTAL CITATIONS	5
AUTHOR COUNT	29
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	1

Exploring the use of virtual reality for episodic future thinking
Open AccessSimon T van Baal, Verity Petratos et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2026
Undervaluing future rewards is a significant problem that leads to issues like addiction and eating disorders. Episodic future thinking (EFT), which involves imagining future experiences, can help mitigate these problems by increasing the perceived value of future rewards. However, not everyone can perform EFT as it requires imagination and sustained mental effort. To address this, we propose using Virtual Reality (VR) to simulate future scenario…
The impact of energy-dense food consumption on brain responses to alcohol rewards
Open AccessEmily Giddens, Trevor Steward et al.ARTICLEAppetite2026References: 72
Overconsumption of alcohol and energy-dense, palatable foods commonly co-occur, and are both characterised by overlapping impairments in reward circuitry function. Elevated consumption of energy-dense foods may increase risk of alcohol binging through sensitising brain responsivity to alcohol rewards, thereby increasing the motivating effects of alcohol consumption. However, the acute effects of dietary intake on brain responses to alcohol in hum…
The impact of smoking reduction on food demand in people with excess weight
Open AccessÁngel García‐pérez, Andrea Krotter et al.ARTICLEAppetite2026References: 78
Smoking cessation is commonly associated with increased food intake and weight gain, representing a substantial barrier to quitting, particularly for individuals with overweight or obesity. This study aimed to uncover the behavioral economic mechanisms underpinning this phenomenon by analyzing changes in food demand during smoking cessation treatment among people with overweight or obesity. We also explored whether baseline tobacco use and eating…
Online Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions for changing snacking behavior and reducing body mass index in people with excess weight
Open AccessRaquel González-González, Lucía Solier-López et al.ARTICLEAppetite2025
Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions (MCII) has proved useful for dietary changes, but not yet applied to people with excess weight. We aimed to determine the benefit of online MCII as an add-on to a standard Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention (Treatment as Usual-TAU) to change snacking behavior -one of the main contributors to excess weight- and reduce BMI. This online randomized controlled trial included 148 participants [MCII-gro…
Food choice motives mediate the relationship between delay discounting and binge eating
Open AccessEmily Colton, Justin Mahlberg et al.ARTICLEAppetite2025References: 122
Binge eating (BE) is associated with psychological distress, functional impairment, and elevated risk of eating disorder diagnoses, and BE prevalence is increasing. Motivational and self-regulatory processes such as delay discounting may be important influences on BE; however, evidence is inconclusive, and lacks explanation of mechanisms. This study investigated how food choice motives mediate the pathway from delay discounting (DD) to BE symptom…
Irrelevant angry, but not happy, faces interfere with conscious perception under high perceptual load
Open AccessRajeshwari Muthukumaran, Rashmi Gupta et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2024
A three-arm randomised controlled trial of a telehealth intervention targeting improvement in addictive eating for Australian adults (the TRACE program)
Open AccessJanelle A Skinner, Mark Leary et al.ARTICLEAppetite2024References: 62
There is a substantial research base for addictive eating with development of interventions. The current 3-arm RCT aimed to investigate the efficacy of the TRACE (Targeted Research for Addictive and Compulsive Eating) program to decrease addictive eating symptoms and improve mental health. Participants (18-85 yrs) endorsing ≥3 addictive eating symptoms were randomly allocated to 1) active intervention, 2) passive intervention, or 3) control group…
Combining novel trait and neurocognitive frameworks to parse heterogeneity in borderline personality disorder
Open AccessLauren Hanegraaf, Bryan Paton et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2023
OBJECTIVE: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) diagnosis comprises several constellations of trait, neurocognitive, and psychosocial alterations. Dimensional models of psychopathology provide new opportunities to parse heterogeneity and create a stronger interface between individual characterization and psychosocial outcomes. However, dimensional models have focused on either traits or neurocognitive features, lacking integration to capture the…
Episodic future thinking and compassion reduce non-compliance urges regarding public health guidelines
Open AccessSimon T van Baal, Antonio Verdejo-Garcia et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023
We conclude that episodic future thinking exercises and compassion training may be used to decrease non-compliance urges of individuals who are an acute public health risk for the community, such as those in voluntary isolation
Novel behaviour change frameworks for digital health interventions
Open AccessMelissa Pelly, Farhad Fatehi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2023
Digital health interventions – interventions delivered over digital media to support the health of users – are becoming increasingly prevalent. Utilising an intervention development framework can increase the efficacy of digital interventions for health-related behaviours. This critical review aims to outline and review novel behaviour change frameworks that guide digital health intervention development. Our comprehensive search for preprints and…
Computational mechanisms underpinning greater exploratory behaviour in excess weight relative to healthy weight adolescents
Open AccessJocelyn Halim, Alex H Robinson et al.ARTICLEAppetite2023References: 59
Obesity in adolescence is associated with cognitive changes that lead to difficulties in shifting unhealthy habits in favour of alternative healthy behaviours, similar to addictive behaviours. An outstanding question is whether this shift in goal-directed behaviour is driven by over-exploitation or over-exploration of rewarding outcomes. Here, we addressed this question by comparing explore/exploit behaviour on the Iowa Gambling Task in 43 adoles…
Brain networks alterations in cocaine use and gambling disorders during emotion regulation
Open AccessMaria Picó‐Pérez, Victor Costumero et al.ARTICLEJournal of Behavioral Addictions2022
Latent classes of maladaptive personality traits exhibit differences in social processing
Open AccessLauren Hanegraaf, Jakob Hohwy et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2022
OBJECTIVE: Social processing (SP) deficits manifest across numerous mental disorders. However, this research has been plagued by heterogeneity and a piecemeal approach whereby skills are examined in isolation rather than as part of an integrated cognitive system. Here, we combined two dimensional frameworks of psychopathology to address these limitations. METHOD: We utilized the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD) to distill trait-…
Development of Goal Management Training+ for Methamphetamine Use Disorder Through Collaborative Design
Open AccessAlexandra Anderson, Alexandra C Anderson et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2022
GMT + targets key cognitive processes and is sensitive to the clinical needs of people with MUD. Our intervention development process was important for informing the active ingredients and materials for GMT + , and indicated initial consumer and provider acceptability prior to conducting a clinical trial
Brain training with the body in mind
Open AccessNaomi Kakoschke, Rowan Page et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021
A unified online test battery for cognitive impulsivity reveals relationships with real-world impulsive behaviours
Open AccessAntonio Verdejo-Garcia, Jeggan Tiego et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2021References: 70
Gambling disorder
Open AccessMarc N Potenza, Iris M Balodis et al.ARTICLENature Reviews Disease Primers2019
Emotion Recognition and Impulsive Choice in Relation to Methamphetamine Use and Psychosis Symptoms
Open AccessShalini Arunogiri, Antonio Verdejo-Garcia et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2019
Introduction: The cognitive profiles of people with methamphetamine use disorder are characterized by impulsivity and impairment in social cognition. However, previous studies have not fully accounted for the presence and impact of co-occurring mental health problems on these domains. For instance, psychotic symptoms are commonly experienced by people who use methamphetamine and may influence cognitive performance. We aimed to examine decision ma…
Dysfunctional Personality Beliefs Linked to Emotion Recognition Deficits in Individuals With Cocaine Addiction and Personality Disorders
Open AccessNatalia Albein‐Urios, Natalia Albein-Urios et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2019
Background: Facial emotion recognition is impaired in addiction and personality disorders. Dysfunctional personality beliefs reflect negative interpersonal schemas that may underpin emotion recognition deficits. We aimed to examine the association between personality beliefs and emotion recognition among participants with cocaine use disorder including those with comorbid personality disorders. Methods: We recruited 70 participants with cocaine u…
Food addiction linked to changes in ventral striatum functional connectivity between fasting and satiety
Open AccessOren Contreras-Rodriguez, T Burrows et al.ARTICLEAppetite2019Cited by: 1References: 40
The Methamphetamine-Associated Psychosis Spectrum
Open AccessShalini Arunogiri, Rebecca McKetin et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Mental…2018
Increased food choice-evoked brain activation in adolescents with excess weight
Open AccessMaría Moreno-Padilla, María Moreno‐Padilla et al.ARTICLEAppetite2018References: 40
Changes in choice evoked brain activations after a weight loss intervention in adolescents
Open AccessFernanda Mata, Juan Verdejo-Román et al.ARTICLEAppetite2016References: 22
Feeling the burn
Open AccessMelita J Giummarra, Nellie Georgiou‐Karistianis et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2015
Insula tuning towards external eating versus interoceptive input in adolescents with overweight and obesity
Open AccessFernanda Mata, Juan Verdejo-Román et al.ARTICLEAppetite2015Cited by: 4References: 37