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Catherine Harmer is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo (UiO). Her research focuses on the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying treatments for depression and anxiety disorders, using advanced techniques like fMRI, MEG, TMS, and psychopharmacological challenges in both healthy volunteers and patient populations.
Research Highlights: Harmer’s groundbreaking work proposes that antidepressants alleviate depression by rapidly resolving negative affective bias, leading to gradual symptom improvement. This model has significant implications for treatment stratification, early therapeutic prediction, and novel drug target identification.
Publications & Collaborations: Her studies, featured in journals like Biological Psychiatry and Molecular Psychiatry, explore attentional bias modification, neural correlates of cognitive therapies, and the neurochemical basis of affective processing. She is affiliated with the Clinical Neuroscience Research Group (CNRG) and contributes to transdiagnostic research on rumination and mood disorders.
Key Techniques: Her lab employs
- fMRI
- MEG
- TMS
- Neuropsychological assessments
