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Anne-Laura van Harmelen

Anne-Laura van Harmelen

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Psychology

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33
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6726
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10405
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1021

Overview

Anne-Laura van Harmelen is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology and medicine, with a substantial focus on clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience. The scientist's investigations often center on topics related to child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, childhood abuse and trauma, resilience and mental health, as well as functional brain connectivity studies and suicide and self-harm studies. Work on COVID-19's impact on mental health is also represented among their research interests.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Anne-Laura van Harmelen include:

  • The complex neurobiology of resilient functioning after childhood maltreatment, 2020, BMC Medicine
  • Conservative and disruptive modes of adolescent change in human brain functional connectivity, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Childhood Trauma in Adult Depressive and Anxiety Disorders: An Integrated Review on Psychological and Biological Mechanisms in the NESDA Cohort, 2021, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • An expanding manifold in transmodal regions characterizes adolescent reconfiguration of structural connectome organization, 2021, eLife
  • Decision-making ability, psychopathology, and brain connectivity, 2021, Neuron

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field, with notable co-authors including Edward T. Bullmore, Raymond J. Dolan, Rogier Kievit, Peter Fonagy, and Peter B. Jones.

Anne-Laura van Harmelen has published extensively in several scientific journals and venues. Four publications have appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, four in Development and Psychopathology, and four as preprints on bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Other significant venues include the Journal of Affective Disorders and Scientific Reports, with three publications each.

Their main fields of study are Psychology and Medicine, with a strong emphasis on subfields such as Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, and Imaging.

Best Publications

  • The resilience framework as a strategy to combat stress-related disorders

    Raffael Kalisch;Dewleen G. Baker;Dewleen G. Baker;Ulrike Basten;Ulrike Basten;Marco P. Boks

  • Justify your alpha

    Daniel Lakens;Federico G. Adolfi;Federico G. Adolfi;Casper J. Albers;Farid Anvari

  • Developmental cognitive neuroscience using latent change score models: A tutorial and applications

    Rogier Andrew Kievit;Andreas M Brandmaier;Gabriel Ziegler;Anne-Laura van Harmelen

  • Reduced Medial Prefrontal Cortex Volume in Adults Reporting Childhood Emotional Maltreatment

    Anne-Laura van Harmelen;Marie-José van Tol;Nic J.A. van der Wee;Dick J. Veltman

  • Norms of valence, arousal, dominance, and age of acquisition for 4,300 Dutch words.

    Agnes Moors;Jan De Houwer;Dirk Hermans;Sabine Wanmaker

  • A Systematic Review of Amenable Resilience Factors That Moderate and/or Mediate the Relationship Between Childhood Adversity and Mental Health in Young People.

    Jessica Fritz;Anne M. de Graaff;Helen Caisley;Helen Caisley;Anne-Laura van Harmelen

  • Imaging suicidal thoughts and behaviors: a comprehensive review of 2 decades of neuroimaging studies

    Lianne Schmaal;Anne-Laura van Harmelen;Vasiliki Chatzi;Elizabeth T. C. Lippard

  • Adolescent friendships predict later resilient functioning across psychosocial domains in a healthy community cohort

    Anne-Laura van Harmelen;Rogier Andrew Kievit;K Ioannidis;Sharon Ann Neufeld

  • Enhanced amygdala reactivity to emotional faces in adults reporting childhood emotional maltreatment

    Anne-Laura van Harmelen;Marie-José van Tol;Liliana R. Demenescu;Nic J. A. van der Wee

  • Friendships and Family Support Reduce Subsequent Depressive Symptoms in At-Risk Adolescents.

    Anne-Laura van Harmelen;Jenny L. Gibson;Michelle C. St Clair;Michelle C. St Clair;Matt Owens;Matt Owens

  • Deconstructing and Reconstructing Resilience: A Dynamic Network Approach:

    Raffael Kalisch;Angélique O J Cramer;Harald Binder;Jessica Fritz

  • Child abuse and negative explicit and automatic self-associations: the cognitive scars of emotional maltreatment

    Anne-Laura van Harmelen;Peter J. de Jong;Klaske A. Glashouwer;Philip Spinhoven

  • The complex neurobiology of resilient functioning after childhood maltreatment

    Konstantinos Ioannidis;Adrian Dahl Askelund;Rogier A. Kievit;Anne-Laura van Harmelen

  • Childhood Trauma in Adult Depressive and Anxiety Disorders: An Integrated Review on Psychological and Biological Mechanisms in the NESDA Cohort

    Erika Kuzminskaite;Brenda W J H Penninx;Anne-Laura van Harmelen;Anne-Laura van Harmelen;Bernet M Elzinga

  • Hypoactive medial prefrontal cortex functioning in adults reporting childhood emotional maltreatment

    Anne-Laura van Harmelen;Marie-José van Tol;Tim Dalgleish;Nic J. A. van der Wee

  • Childhood Emotional Maltreatment Severity Is Associated with Dorsal Medial Prefrontal Cortex Responsivity to Social Exclusion in Young Adults

    Anne-Laura van Harmelen;Kirsten Hauber;Bregtje Gunther Moor;Philip Spinhoven

  • General and specific effects of early-life psychosocial adversities on adolescent grey matter volume

    Nicholas D. Walsh;Nicholas D. Walsh;Tim Dalgleish;Michael V. Lombardo;Valerie J. Dunn

  • The resilient emotional brain: a scoping review of the medial prefrontal cortex and limbic structure and function in resilient adults with a history of childhood maltreatment

    Laura Moreno-López;Konstantinos Ioannidis;Adrian Dahl Askelund;Alicia J. Smith

  • Positive memory specificity is associated with reduced vulnerability to depression.

    Adrian Dahl Askelund;Susanne Schweizer;Ian M Goodyer;Anne-Laura van Harmelen

  • Poor family functioning mediates the link between childhood adversity and adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury.

    Matthew Cassels;Anne-Laura van Harmelen;Sharon Ann Neufeld;Ian Michael Goodyer

  • Social pain and social gain in the adolescent brain: A common neural circuitry underlying both positive and negative social evaluation.

    Tim Dalgleish;Nicholas D. Walsh;Dean Mobbs;Susanne Schweizer

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian M. Goodyer
Ian M. Goodyer University of Cambridge
Rogier A. Kievit
Rogier A. Kievit Donders Institute
Bernet M. Elzinga
Bernet M. Elzinga Leiden University
Philip Spinhoven
Philip Spinhoven Leiden University
Tim Dalgleish
Tim Dalgleish University of Cambridge
Peter Fonagy
Peter Fonagy University College London
Nic J.A. van der Wee
Nic J.A. van der Wee Leiden University Medical Center
Jan Stochl
Jan Stochl University of Cambridge
Eiko I. Fried
Eiko I. Fried Leiden University

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