Iciar Iturmendi-Sabater
About Me.
I am a psychologist and PhD student at the University of Toronto's Institute of Medical Science and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. My thesis is supervised by Dr. Meng-Chuan Lai and Dr. Hsiang-Yuan Lin. We are investigating the interplay between self-regulation, social cognition and social adaptation in children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, attention-deficit/hyperativity disorder (ADHD), obsessive/compulsive disorder (OCD), intellectual disability, and others. I aim to become a psychologist clinician-scientist especialised in research and care of young people with neurodevelopmental conditions.
Previously (2019-2021), I completed a Master's in Research in Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology at University College London and the Anna Freud Centre in the UK. I joined the Sukhodolsky Lab at Yale University's Child Study Centre (CN, USA) to work on my master's thesis on the fMRI neural correlates of reactive aggression in a transdiagnostic sample of youth.
Before that (2015-2019) I studied an undergraduate degree in Health Psychology at the University of Navarra in my home country, Spain, where I first developed my interest in research. Studying abroad in the University of the Andes in Santiago de Chile (2018), I confirmed that I wanted to pursue postgraduate studies away from home to keep broadening my perspectives. I have been lucky to learn from different mentors worldwide ever since.
Education
2023 -
MSc (General Health-Care Psychology) *
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), remote learning, Spain.
* Spanish Minitry of Education and Health's official master that enables Psychology graduates to conduct psychotherapeutic consultations in Spain.
2022 -
Ph.D. (Medical Science)
Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Advisors: Dr. Meng-Chuan Lai, Dr. Hsiang-Yuan Lin
2019-2021
M.Res. (Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology)
University College London, UK, and Yale University, New Haven, USA.
Advisors: Prof. Denis G. Sukhodolsky, Dr. Karim Ibrahim.
M.Res. Thesis: “Neural Correlates of Reactive Aggression in Youth: Transdiagnostic Implications for the Biobehavioural Switch Model”
2015-2019
B.Sc. (Psychology)
University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
You can find me in...
Toronto, Canada
Madrid, Spain