Professor Anne-Laura van Harmelen

Interests

Anne-Laura van Harmelen is an affiliated researcher at the department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. Van Harmelen is professor of Brain, Safety and Resilience at the Institute of Education and Child Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands. van Harmelen leads the Centre for the Integration of Resilience Complexity Leiden. This centre focusses on examining the neurobiological mechanisms of risk and resilience in young people with a history of childhood adversity.

Research Focus

Keywords

maltreatment

(f)MRI

stress

psychopathology

behaviour

Clinical conditions

resilience

Stress

Equipment

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Collaborators

Cambridge

Tim Dalgleish

Ian Goodyer

rogier Kievit

Susanne Schweitzer

Jason Stretton

International

Angelique Cramer

Bernet Elzinga

Associated News Items


Publications

2017

Dalgleish, T, Walsh, N., Mobbs, D., Schweizer, S., van Harmelen, A-L., Dunn, B.D., Dunn V., Goodyer, I., & Stretton, J. A (2017), “Social pain and social gain in the adolescent brain: A common neural circuitry underlying both positive and negative evaluation.” Scientific Reports doi:10.1038/srep42010

Van Schie, C., van Harmelen A-L., Hauber, K., Boon, A., Crone E.A.M., & Elzinga, B.M (2017), “The neural correlates of childhood maltreatment and the ability to understand mental states of others.” European Journal of Psychotraumatology /doi/full/10.1080/20008198.2016.1272788

2016

van Harmelen, A.-L., Gibson, J.L., St.Clair, M., Owens, M., Brodbeck, J., Dunn, V., Lewis, G., Croudace, T.J., Jones, P.B., Kievit, R.A., & Goodyer, I.G. (2016), “Friendships and Family Support Reduce Subsequent Depressive Symptoms in At-risk Adolescents. ” Plos One http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153715

2015

Harpur, L., Polek, E., & van Harmelen, A.-L. (2015), “The Role of Timing of Maltreatment and Child Intelligence in Pathways to Low Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety in Adolescence” Child Abuse and Neglect, 47, 24-37

2014

van Harmelen AL, Hauber K, Gunther Moor B, Spinhoven P, Boon AE, Crone EA, Elzinga BM (2014), “Childhood emotional maltreatment severity is associated with dorsal medial prefrontal cortex responsivity to social exclusion in young adults.” PLoS One 9(1):e85107 Details

van Harmelen AL, van Tol MJ, Dalgleish T, van der Wee NJ, Veltman DJ, Aleman A, Spinhoven P, Penninx BW, Elzinga BM (2014), “Hypoactive medial Prefrontal Cortex functioning in adults reporting Childhood Emotional Maltreatment.” Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci Details

Walsh ND, Dalgleish T, Lombardo MV, Dunn VJ, Van Harmelen AL, Ban M, Goodyer IM (2014), “General and specific effects of early-life psychosocial adversities on adolescent grey matter volume.” Neuroimage Clin 4:308-18 Details

2013

Moors A, De Houwer J, Hermans D, Wanmaker S, van Schie K, Van Harmelen AL, De Schryver M, De Winne J, Brysbaert M (2013), “Norms of valence, arousal, dominance, and age of acquisition for 4,300 Dutch words.” Behav Res Methods 45(1):169-77 Details

van Harmelen AL, van Tol MJ, Demenescu LR, van der Wee NJ, Veltman DJ, Aleman A, van Buchem MA, Spinhoven P, Penninx BW, Elzinga BM (2013), “Enhanced amygdala reactivity to emotional faces in adults reporting childhood emotional maltreatment.” Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 8(4):362-9 Details

2011

Anne-Laura van Harmelen (2011), “The cognitive and neurobiological scars of childhood emotional maltreatment” Newsletter for the International Society for Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection 5, 2, 1-­?8

Anne-Laura van Harmelen (2011), “Review of MacDonald, G. & Jensen-­? Campbell, L. A. (Eds.). (2011). Social Pain: Neuropsychological and Health Implications of Loss and Exclusion. Washington, DC: APA Books.” Newsletter for the International Society for Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection 5, 3, 4-7

van Harmelen AL, Elzinga BM, Kievit RA, Spinhoven P (2011), “Intrusions of autobiographical memories in individuals reporting childhood emotional maltreatment.” Eur J Psychotraumatol 2 Details

2010

van Harmelen AL, de Jong PJ, Glashouwer KA, Spinhoven P, Penninx BW, Elzinga BM (2010), “Child abuse and negative explicit and automatic self-associations: the cognitive scars of emotional maltreatment.” Behav Res Ther 48(6):486-94 Details

van Harmelen AL, van Tol MJ, van der Wee NJ, Veltman DJ, Aleman A, Spinhoven P, van Buchem MA, Zitman FG, Penninx BW, Elzinga BM (2010), “Reduced medial prefrontal cortex volume in adults reporting childhood emotional maltreatment.” Biol Psychiatry 68(9):832-8 Details

2009

Talsma, D., A.L. van Harmelen (2009), “Procedures and strategies for optimizing the Signal to noise ratio in event related potential data” Brain Signal Analysis, Cambridge, MIT press 205-­? 224