Research Project

Negin Hesam-Shariati
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Dr Negin Hesam-Shariati is a research fellow at the School of Psychology, the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and an affiliated scientist in the Centre for Pain IMPACT at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA).
Negin holds a BSc and MSc in biomedical engineering, and completed her doctoral degree in medical sciences at UNSW and NeuRA in 2018. Currently, she leads the Chronic Pain Neurotherapy program at the UNSW NeuroRecovery Research Hub, directed by Prof Sylvia Gustin. The focus of this program is on developing and investigating a brain-computer interface neurofeedback intervention for people with chronic neuropathic pain.
Publications
2025 Jul
Stress‐Related Brain Alterations in Chronic Pain
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.70034
2025, 01 May
Online Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for Emotion Dysregulation in People With Chronic Pain
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1188262350
2025 May
Conversational Agents to Support Pain Management: A Scoping Review
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1187220601
2025 May
The Effect of an EEG Neurofeedback Intervention for Corneal Neuropathic Pain: A Single-Case Experimental Design with Multiple Baselines
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2025.105394
2024 Dec
A home-based self-directed EEG neurofeedback intervention for people with chronic neuropathic pain following spinal cord injury (the StoPain Trial): description of the intervention
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1038/s41393-024-01031-3
2024, 01 Oct
Emotion regulation skills-focused interventions for chronic pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1170315127
2024, 01 Aug
Contrast Sensitivity, Visual Field, Color Vision, Motion Perception, and Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1173033706
2023, 01 Oct
Frequency of coexistent eye diseases and cognitive impairment or dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1156213389
2023, 10 May
Depressive symptoms moderate functional connectivity within the emotional brain in chronic pain
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1157914198
2023, 17 May
A brain-computer interface neuromodulation intervention to reduce neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury