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Nell Norman-Nott
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Nell BPsychSci(Hons), BA(Hons) is a PhD candidate and clinical researcher at UNSW, Sydney in the School of Psychology and is part of the Centre for Pain IMPACT at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) under the supervision of Prof Sylvia Gustin. Nells work focuses on the development of a new internet-delivered emotion focussed psychological treatment for chronic pain based on dialectical behavioural therapy.
Prior to retraining in psychology, Nell had a 15-year career in high tech organisations in online media and marketing at global brands Yahoo and LinkedIn. Nells corporate experience has aided her in the development of her approach to psychology and particularly has helped inform her interest in technologically driven treatment for chronic pain.
In 2022 Nell was awarded the NeuRA PhD Pearl award, she is supported by the Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship (administered by the University of New South Wales), and a supplementary scholarship administered by Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA).
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Publications
2026 Apr
Brain correlates of psychological trauma in chronic pain: A systematic review
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2026.106576
2025 Oct
“It’s just crucial to deal with emotions as well as the pain” A qualitative acceptability study of an online emotion regulation skills-focused intervention for people with chronic pain
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100638
2025, 14 Sep
Alexithymia moderates brain function during suppression of negative emotions in fibromyalgia
View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.12.25335623
2025 Jul
Stress‐Related Brain Alterations in Chronic Pain
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.70034
2024 Sep
Emotion regulation skills‐focused interventions for chronic pain: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.2268
2024, 09 May
Posttraumatic stress symptoms in chronic pain: impacts on brain morphology
View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.09.24307012
2023 May
Depressive symptoms moderate functional connectivity within the emotional brain in chronic pain
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2023.61
2022 Nov
Evaluation of emotion-centric psychological interventions for chronic pain: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-063102
2022, 16 Aug
Internet-Delivered Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills Training for Chronic Pain: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint)
View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.41890
2022, 15 Feb
Is chronic pain an affective disorder? Moderation of resting-state functional connectivity within the emotional brain by depressive symptoms
View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.11.22270877
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