Catherine J Harmer

Biographic Data

ID5458230
NAMECatherine J Harmer
GIVEN NAMESCatherine J
FAMILY NAMEHarmer
SIGNATUREHARMER C J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oxford
ORCID0000-0002-1609-8335
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Invisible Dangers”

    Open AccessAnna Pelliet, Marlene Nogueira et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2025

    Suppression times for angry faces were compared to those for fearful and happy faces using CFS. • Anger broke suppression more slowly than fear but did not significantly differ from happiness. • Differences in suppression times between anger and fear correlated with higher state anger post-induction. • This study provides new insights into unconscious mechanisms underlying subjective anger. Traditional paradigms for studying the unconscious proce…

  • The Effect of the 5-HT4 Agonist, Prucalopride, on a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Faces Task in the Healthy Human Brain

    Open AccessAngharad N de Cates, Marieke Martens et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2022

    Depression is a common and often recurrent illness with significant negative impact on a global scale. Current antidepressants are ineffective for up to one third of people with depression, many of whom experience persistent symptomatology. 5-HT 4 receptor agonists show promise in both animal models of depression and cognitive deficit. We therefore studied the effect of the 5-HT 4 partial agonist prucalopride (1 mg daily for 6 days) on the neural…

  • Over-the-counter analgesics use is associated with pain and psychological distress among adolescents

    Open AccessRune Jonassen, Eva Hilland et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Sex, pain and anxiety and depression are inter-correlated and strong predictors of frequent OTCA use. Frequent OTCA use in the context of psychological distress may be a form of self-medication that can exacerbate symptoms and decrease psychosocial function. Longitudinal studies that explore causal trajectories between frequent on-label OTCA use and psychological distress are required. OTCA use among adolescents, and particularly among females, w…

  • Emotional Biases and Recurrence in Major Depressive Disorder. Results of 2.5 Years Follow-Up of Drug-Free Cohort Vulnerable for Recurrence

    Open AccessHenricus G Ruhe, Roel J T Mocking et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2019

    An interesting factor explaining recurrence risk in Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) may be neuropsychological functioning, i.e., processing of emotional stimuli/information. Negatively biased processing of emotional stimuli/information has been found in both acute and (inconclusively) remitted states of MDD, and may be causally related to recurrence of depression. We aimed to investigate self-referent, memory and interpretation biases in recurren…

  • A Dissociation of the Acute Effects of Bupropion on Positive Emotional Processing and Reward Processing in Healthy Volunteers

    Open AccessAnnabel Walsh, Annabel E L Walsh et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2018

    Background: Previous research indicates that antidepressants can restore the balance between negative and positive emotional processing early in treatment, indicating a role of this effect in later mood improvement. However, less is known about the effect of antidepressants on reward processing despite the potential relevance to the treatment of anhedonia. In this study, we investigated the effects of an acute dose of the atypical antidepressant …

  • Reduced Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Current and Recovered Restrictive Anorexia Nervosa

    Open AccessJessica Scaife, Jessica Clare Scaife et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2017

    Functional connectivity studies based on resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) have shown alterations in brain networks associated with self-referential processing, cognitive control, and somatosensory processing in anorexia nervosa (AN). This study aimed to further investigate the functional connectivity of resting-state networks (RSNs) in homogenous subsamples of individuals with restrictive AN (current and recovered) an…

  • Anxiety increases breakthrough of threat stimuli in continuous flash suppression

    Liliana P Capitão, Liliana Capitão et al.ARTICLEEmotion2014

    Trait anxiety is associated with an excessive processing of danger-related stimuli, predisposing individuals to quickly detect threatening cues. Early, automatic mechanisms are believed to be responsible for the production of these cognitive biases; however, limitations in the paradigms most commonly used to achieve visual suppression or attentional unawareness have left open the possibility of strategic mechanisms influencing these early stages …

  • An fMRI study of the effect of satiation on reward and aversion

    Open AccessJason Thomas, J M Thomas et al.ARTICLEAppetite2012