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Catherine J Harmer
Head of Group, Reader
Psychopharmacology and Emotion Research Laboratory (PERL)
Integration of cognitive, biological and pharmacological models of normal and abnormal function,
mood and anxiety disorders and the psychological mechanisms of antidepressant drug action
Research Areas
Medical Sciences Division Themes
- Neuroscience
- Imaging
- Drug Discovery
- Psychiatry
Group Members
- Martina Di Simplicio, Visiting Grad Student (University of Siena, Italy), Psychiatrist
- Poornima Kumar, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Ciara McCabe, Sr. Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Susannah Murphy, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Lizzie Parsons, Research Assistant
- Abbie Pringle, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Andrea Reinecke, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Michael Browning, Wellcome Clinical Research Fellow, Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist
- Angela Rylands, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Liliana Capitao, DPhil Student
Former Group Members
- Sally Adams, PhD Student in Psychology, University of Bristol
- Rachael Ayres, Clinical Psychology Training, University College London
- Stella Chan, Lecturer and Researcher, University of Cambridge
- Anneke Haddad, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Oxford Experimental Psychology Department
- Gail Hayward, Junior Doctor, Oxford
- Rachel Massey-Chase, Clinical Psychology Training, University College London
- Kamilla Miskowiak, Clinical Psychologist and Researcher, University of Copenhagen
- Ursula O'Sullivan, Consultant Clinician, New Zealand
- Maria Portella, Researcher, University of Barcelona
- Catriona Reid, Clinical Psychology Training, University of Plymouth
- Lara Waldenmaier, Research Assistant, Oxford Autism Research Group
- Nancy Rawlings, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Plasticity in Disease, FMRIB
- Philippa Rock, Scientist, Cambridge Cognition
- Jamie Horder, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, IOP Kings College London
- Matthew Charles, Clinical Psychology Training, University College London
- Elisa Favaron, Research Psychiatrist and Clinician
Collaborators
- Prof Guy Goodwin, Psychiatry
- Prof Phil Cowen, Psychiatry
- Prof Mark Williams, Experimental Psychology & Psychiatry
- Dr Emily Holmes, Psychiatry
- Dr Jenny Yiend, Psychiatry
- Dr Robert Rogers, Psychiatry
- Dr Myra Cooper, Clinical Psychology
Recent Publications
- Cowdrey Felicity, Park Rebecca, Harmer Catherine, and McCabe Ciara (2011) Neural responses to emotional faces in women recovered from anorexia nervosa. Psychiatry Research- Neuroimaging.
- Cowdrey Felicity, Park Rebecca, Harmer Catherine, and McCabe Ciara (2011) Reply to: Punishing Food: What Brain Activity Can Tell Us About the Representation of Food in Recovered Anorexia Nervosa. Biol Psychiatry, Epub Ahead of print.
- Cowdrey F A, Park R J, Harmer C J, and McCabe C (2011) Increased Neural Processing of Rewarding and Aversive Food Stimuli in Recovered Anorexia Nervosa. Biol Psychiatry , Jun 27.
- Di Simplicio Martina, 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. Mol Psychiatry.
- Harmer Catherine, Charles Matthew, McTavish S, Favaron E, and Cowen P J (2011) Negative ion treatment increases positive emotional processing in seasonal affective disorder. Psychol Med:1-8.
| Contact address | University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry, Neurosciences Building, Warneford Hospital, Warneford Lane, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7JX |
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| Department | Department of Psychiatry |
| College | Corpus Christi College |
Catherine J Harmer
While studying Psychology at the University of York, I became interested in the integration of cognitive, biological and pharmacological models of normal and abnormal function. I stayed on within the same department for my DPhil to investigate the role of the mesoamygdaloid dopamine projection in learning and drug addiction. Since coming to Oxford in 1998, I have focused on mood and anxiety disorders and the psychological mechanisms of antidepressant drug action. I have been a University Lecturer at the Department of Experimental Psychology and am now a Professor in Cognitive Psychology at the University Department of Psychiatry.
Sources of Funding
- MRC 2006- 2011
Awards Training and Qualifications
- 2004 BAP Pre-Clinical Scientist Prize, British Association for Psychopharmacology
- 1995- 1998 DPhil Psychology, University of York
- 1992- 1995 BSc Psychology, University of York
