publications

2025

1. Online cognitive stimulation intervention (CSI): A novel approach to improve cognitive functions in healthy older adults.

   Samira Vafa, Min Hooi Yong, Aleya A Marzuki, Alvin Lai Oon Ng, and Alexandre Schaefer

   Psychology and Aging, 2025

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2. Clozapine-induced obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia: Clinical and cognitive determinants of dysfunctional checking

   Marjan Biria, Paula Banca, Isaac Jarratt Barnham, Aleya A Marzuki, Nuria Segarra, Engin Keser, Akeem Sule, Marija Farrugia, Qiang Luo, Naomi Fineberg, and 1 more author

   Psychological Medicine, 2025

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3. The effectiveness of real-life cognitive and physical interventions on cognitive functioning in healthy older adults: A systematic review of the effects of education and training duration

   Samira Vafa, Arjun Thanaraju, Jee Kei Chan, Hanis Atasha Harris, Xiou Wen Chan, Khushi Todi, Annette Shamala Arokiaraj, Yook Chin Chia, Michael Jenkins, and Aleya A Marzuki

   Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 2025

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4. Metacognitive antecedents to states of mental ill-health: Drops in confidence precede symptoms of OCD

   Aleya Marzuki, Luca Kosina, Lenard Dome, Sam Hewitt, and Tobias Hauser

   Research Square, 2025

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2024

1. Action sequence learning, habits, and automaticity in obsessive-compulsive disorder

   Paula Banca, Maria Herrojo Ruiz, Miguel Fernando Gonzalez-Zalba, Marjan Biria, Aleya A Marzuki, Thomas Piercy, Akeem Sule, Naomi A Fineberg, and Trevor W Robbins

   Elife, 2024

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2. A systematic review on the relationship between socioeconomic conditions and emotional disorder symptoms during Covid-19: unearthing the potential role of economic concerns and financial strain

   Jee Kei Chan, Aleya A Marzuki, Samira Vafa, Arjun Thanaraju, Jie Yap, Xiou Wen Chan, Hanis Atasha Harris, Khushi Todi, and Alexandre Schaefer

   BMC psychology, 2024

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3. Excessive checking in obsessive-compulsive disorder: neurochemical correlates revealed by 7T magnetic resonance spectroscopy

   Marjan Biria, Paula Banca, Engin Keser, Máiréad P Healy, Stephen J Sawiak, Aleya A Marzuki, Akeem Sule, Trevor W Robbins, and others

   Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science, 2024

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4. Bridging minds and policies: supporting early career researchers in translating computational psychiatry research

   Aleya A Marzuki and Tsen Vei Lim

   Neuropsychopharmacology, 2024

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5. Structural and functional brain correlates of socioeconomic status across the life span: A systematic review

   Arjun Thanaraju, Aleya A Marzuki, Jee Kei Chan, Kean Yung Wong, Paveen Phon-Amnuaisuk, Samira Vafa, Jactty Chew, Yook Chin Chia, and Michael Jenkins

   Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2024

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6. Mapping computational cognitive profiles of aging to dissociable brain and sociodemographic factors

   Aleya A Marzuki, Kean Yung Wong, Jee Kei Chan, Sze Yie Na, Arjun Thanaraju, Paveen Phon-Amnuaisuk, Samira Vafa, Jie Yap, Wei Gene Lim, Wei Zern Yip, and 1 more author

   npj Aging, 2024

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7. Compulsive avoidance in youths and adults with OCD: an aversive pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer study

   Aleya A Marzuki, Paula Banca, Sara Garofalo, Luigi AE Degni, Daniela Dalbagno, Marco Badioli, Akeem Sule, Muzaffer Kaser, Anna Conway-Morris, Barbara J Sahakian, and 1 more author

   Translational Psychiatry, 2024

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8. One hundred years of EEG for brain and behaviour research

   Faisal Mushtaq, Dominik Welke, Anne Gallagher, Yuri G Pavlov, Layla Kouara, Jorge Bosch-Bayard, Jasper JF Bosch, Mahnaz Arvaneh, Amy R Bland, Maximilien Chaumon, and 1 more author

   Nature human behaviour, 2024

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9. Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Human Reward System Research: A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualisation of Current Research Trends

   Asma Hayati Ahmad, Siti Hajar Zabri, Siti Mariam Roslan, Nur Ayunie Ayob, Aini Ismafairus Abd Hamid, Nur Hartini Mohd Taib, Nasibah Mohamad, Zahiruddin Othman, Sofina Tamam, Aleya Aziz Marzuki, and 1 more author

   The Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences: MJMS, 2024

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2023

1. Error-and inhibitory-related brain activity associated with political ideology: A multi-site replication study

   Aleya Aziz Marzuki, Kilian Gloy, Christian Kandler, Paveen Phon-Amnuaisuk, Michael Jenkins, KY Wong, Shirley Lim, WZ Yip, K Garrison, J Wahlers, and 1 more author

   2023

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2. Cortical glutamate and GABA are related to compulsive behaviour in individuals with obsessive compulsive disorder and healthy controls

   Marjan Biria, Paula Banca, Máiréad P Healy, Engin Keser, Stephen J Sawiak, Christopher T Rodgers, Catarina Rua, Ana Maria Frota Lisboa Pereira Souza, Aleya A Marzuki, Akeem Sule, and 1 more author

   Nature Communications, 2023

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3. Revisiting the Neurocognitive Correlates of the Behavioral Inhibition and Activation Systems

   Kilian Gloy, Aleya Aziz Marzuki, Alexandre Schaefer, Michael J Jenkins, Ingmar Engbert Jacob De Vries, Paveen Phon-Amnuaisuk, Shirley Lim, Kean Yung Wong, Sören Enge, Lars Michael, and 1 more author

   2023

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2022

1. Atypical action updating in a dynamic environment associated with adolescent obsessive–compulsive disorder

   Aleya A Marzuki, Matilde M Vaghi, Anna Conway-Morris, Muzaffer Kaser, Akeem Sule, Annemieke Apergis-Schoute, Barbara J Sahakian, and Trevor W Robbins

   Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2022

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2021

1. Association of environmental uncertainty with altered decision-making and learning mechanisms in youths with obsessive-compulsive disorder

   Aleya A Marzuki, Ivan Tomić, Samantha Hiu Yan Ip, Julia Gottwald, Jonathan W Kanen, Muzaffer Kaser, Akeem Sule, Anna Conway-Morris, Barbara J Sahakian, and Trevor W Robbins

   JAMA network open, 2021

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2019

1. Are Candidate Neurocognitive Endophenotypes of OCD Present in Paediatric Patients? A Systematic Review

   Aleya A Marzuki, Ana Maria FL Souza, Barbara J Sahakian, and Trevor W Robbins

   Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2019

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