Daniela Andrea Espinoza Oyarce
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Daniela Espinoza Oyarce is the Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL) Senior Project Officer and a neuroscience researcher at the Centre for Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing at The Australian National University.She has worked in university laboratories and in multi-disciplinary projects as a research assistant, including neuroscience and environmental health.
Daniela Espinoza Oyarce is a also a PhD candidate with NCEPH.
Her thesis focuses on the link between brain, behaviour and personality based on the Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory.
She was awarded a Bachelor of Medical Science in 2011 at the University of Canberra with a major in pathology and a Master of Neuroscience in 2013 at The Australian National University with a multidisciplinary thesis in neuroscience and immunology. Her most recent work investigates brain differences in clinical depression in association with anxiety, and the association between personality scales and brain.
Affiliations
Research interests
- Neuroscience
- Neuroimaging
- Neuropsychology
- Personality
- Depression
- Anxiety
Projects
Publications
Espinoza Oyarce DA, Burns R, Butterworth P, Cherbuin N 2021. Bridging classical and revised reinforcement sensitivity theory research: A longitudinal analysis of a large population study. Frontiers in Psychology 12: 737117
Vardoulakis S, Espinoza Oyarce DA, Donner E 2021. Transmission of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases in public washrooms: A systematic review. Science of the Total Environment 803: 149932
Espinoza Oyarce DA, Shaw M, Alateeq K, Cherbuin N 2020. Volumetric brain differences in clinical depression in association with anxiety: a systematic review with meta-analysis. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience 45(6): 406-429
Vardoulakis S, Espinoza Oyarce DA, Lo Iacono G, Nichols G, Lauriola P, Zeka A, Leonardi G 2020. Airborne transmission of COVID-19 and other coronaviruses in indoor and outdoor environments: A systematic literature review. ISEE Conference Abstracts 2020(1)
Walsh E, Shaw M, Espinoza Oyarce DA, Fraser M, Cherbuin N 2019. Assumption-free assessment of corpus callosum shape: benchmarking and application. Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part A 2019: 8921901
Luders E, Kurth F, Das D, Espinoza Oyarce DA, Shaw ME, Sachdev P, Easteal S, Anstey K, Cherbuin N 2016. Associations between corpus callosum size and ADHD symptoms in older adults: the PATH through life study. Psychiatry Research 256: 8-14
Luders E, Kurth F, Das D, Espinoza Oyarce DA, Shaw M, Sachdev, P, Easteal S, Anstey, K, Cherbuin N 2016. The inattentive and hyperactive brain: Significant links between corpus callosum features and ADHD symptoms in adulthood. European Psychiatry 33(S1): S197-S198