2008 - today Research Psychiatrist  - Professorial Outpatients Department Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford 2008 - 2011 PhD - Neurosciences University of Siena, Italy - University of Oxford, UK 2009-2010 Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Therapy Oxford Centre for Cognitive Therapy, University of Oxford, UK 2003-2007 Specialty Training in Psychiatry Scuola di Specializzazione in Psichiatria, University of Siena, Italy 1997-2003 Degree in Medicine University of Siena, Italy

I am a postdoctoral research psychiatrist and my work investigates the neurobiological correlates of abnormal imagery processes in Bipolar Disorder.

Awards 

Equilibrium – The Bipolar Foundation. Bridging Funding Award Deepening our understanding for an innovative treatment approach for bipolar disorder  - 2011

John Fell OUP Research Fund, University of Oxford – Small Research Grant Award Antidepressant effects on processing emotions in a population at risk of depression – 2010-2012

Young Scientist Award, 23^rd European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Congress, 28^th August-1^st September 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Publications

Di Simplicio, M., Costoloni, G., Western, D., Hanson, B., Taggart, P., and Harmer, C.J. (2011). Cardiovascular Autonomic Nervous System Alterations during Emotion Regulation in Subjects at Risk for Psychopathology, Psychol Med. Nov 9:1-9. [Epub ahead of print]

Horder J, Browning M, Di Simplicio M, Cowen PJ, Harmer CJ. (2011). Effects of 7 days treatment with the cannabinoid type 1 receptor antagonist, rimonabant, on emotional processing. J Psychopharmacol. Mar 15. [Epub ahead of print]

Di Simplicio, M., Norbury, R., and Harmer, C.J. (2011). Short Term Antidepressant Administration Reduces Negative Self-referential Processing in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Subjects at Risk for Depression, Molecular Psychiatry, Mar 1. [Epub ahead of print].

Serretti A, Calati R, Goracci A, Di Simplicio M, Castrogiovanni P, De Ronchi D. (2010). Antidepressants in healthy subjects: what are the psychotropic/psychological effects? Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 20(7):433-53.

Horder J, Cowen PJ, Di Simplicio M, Browning M, Harmer CJ (2009). Acute administration of the cannabinoid CB1 antagonist rimonabant impairs positive affective memory in healthy volunteers. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 205(1):85-91.

Di Simplicio M., Massey-Chase R., Cowen P. and Harmer C. (2009). Oxytocin enhances perception and memory for positive versus negative emotional information in healthy male volunteers. Journal of Psychopharmacology 23(3):241-8.

Contact

martina.disimplicio@psych.ox.ac.uk