Narelle completed a Bachelor of Arts (double major in psychology), followed by first class Honours in psychology, at the University of Queensland. Her PhD was based at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (now known as QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute), where she merged her interest in psychology with that of behaviour genetics to investigate genetic influences on brain function and cognitive processing. In 2003 she took a postdoctoral position with QIMR Berghofer where her work focussed on the genetic analysis of twin data and explored the extent of genetic and environmental influence on multiple behavioural traits, and more recently, brain structure and function. In January 2016 she took up a position as Research Fellow at the Queensland Brain Institute to work with A/Prof Margie Wright on a longitudinal twin study exploring neurodevelopment during early adolescence.

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Doctor of Philosophy (2003), The University of Queensland

Bachelor of Psychology (Hons)(1997), The University of Queensland

Genome-wide association study of working memory brain activation.

The effect of increased genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease on hippocampal and amygdala volume.

Heritability of the network architecture of intrinsic brain functional connectivity.

Genetic basis of a cognitive complexity metric.

Genetics and brain morphology.

Genetic architecture of subcortical brain regions: common and region-specific genetic contributions.

Childhood intelligence is heritable, highly polygenic and associated with FNBP1L.

Genetic co-morbidity between neuroticism, anxiety/depression and somatic distress in a population sample of adolescent and young adult twins.

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