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Emily A. Holmes

Emily A. Holmes

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Psychology
Sweden
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
91
Citations
39424
World Ranking
912
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2010 - Spearman Medal, British Psychological Society
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Emily A. Holmes is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden and has an extensive publication record in the fields of psychology and medicine. Their research primarily covers clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, and social psychology.

Their work addresses multiple topics including:

  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms

Recent publications reflect their engagement with mental health issues, especially in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic and trauma. Notable papers include:

  • Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science (2020), published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Anxiety disorders (2021), published in The Lancet
  • The scope of mental health research during the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath (2020), published in The British Journal of Psychiatry
  • Depression and anxiety disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic: knowns and unknowns (2021), published in The Lancet
  • Reducing intrusive memories after trauma via a brief cognitive task intervention in the hospital emergency department: an exploratory pilot randomised controlled trial (2021), published in Translational Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors contributing to their research include Marie Kanstrup, Laura Singh, Michelle L. Moulds, Lalitha Iyadurai, and Michael B. Bonsall.

Their studies have been published regularly in several venues, most notably:

  • JMIR Formative Research
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Translational Psychiatry

Emily A. Holmes has been recognized with the Spearman Medal from the British Psychological Society in 2010 and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science.

    Emily A. Holmes;Emily A. Holmes;Rory C O'Connor;V. Hugh Perry;Irene Tracey

  • Psychological theories of posttraumatic stress disorder

    Chris R Brewin;Emily A Holmes

  • Mental imagery in emotion and emotional disorders.

    Emily A. Holmes;Andrew Mathews

  • Evidence-based guidelines for treating bipolar disorder: Revised third edition recommendations from the British Association for Psychopharmacology

    G. M. Goodwin;P. M. Haddad;I. N. Ferrier;J. K. Aronson

  • Mental Imagery: Functional Mechanisms and Clinical Applications.

    Joel Pearson;Thomas Naselaris;Emily A. Holmes;Stephen M. Kosslyn

  • Emotion Regulation Strategies in Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms in Youth: A Meta-Analytic Review

    Johanna Özlem Schäfer;Eva Naumann;Emily Alexandra Holmes;Emily Alexandra Holmes;Brunna Tuschen-Caffier

  • Are there two qualitatively distinct forms of dissociation? A review and some clinical implications.

    Emily A. Holmes;R J Brown;W Mansell;R P Fearon

  • Mental imagery and emotion : A special relationship?

    Emily A. Holmes;Andrew Mathews

  • Anxiety disorders

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  • Imagery rescripting in cognitive behaviour therapy: images, treatment techniques and outcomes.

    Emily A. Holmes;Arnoud Arntz;Mervin R. Smucker

  • The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on psychological treatments research in tomorrow's science

    Emily A Holmes;Ata Ghaderi;Catherine J Harmer;Catherine J Harmer;Paul G Ramchandani

  • Trauma Films, Information Processing, and Intrusive Memory Development

    Emily A. Holmes;Chris R. Brewin;Richard G. Hennessy

  • Developing interpretation bias modification as a "cognitive vaccine" for depressed mood: imagining positive events makes you feel better than thinking about them verbally.

    Emily A. Holmes;Tamara J. Lang;Dhruvi M. Shah

  • Positive Interpretation Training: Effects of Mental Imagery Versus Verbal Training on Positive Mood

    Emily A. Holmes;Andrew Mathews;Tim Dalgleish;Bundy Mackintosh

  • Can Playing the Computer Game “Tetris” Reduce the Build-Up of Flashbacks for Trauma? A Proposal from Cognitive Science

    Emily A. Holmes;Ella L. James;Thomas Coode-Bate;Catherine Deeprose

  • Inducing and modulating intrusive emotional memories: a review of the trauma film paradigm

    Emily A. Holmes;Corin Bourne

  • Intrusive images and "hotspots" of trauma memories in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: an exploratory investigation of emotions and cognitive themes.

    Emily A Holmes;Nick Grey;Kerry A D Young

  • Oxford Guide to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy

    Ann Hackmann;James Bennett-Levy;Emily A. Holmes

  • Computer Game Play Reduces Intrusive Memories of Experimental Trauma via Reconsolidation-Update Mechanisms

    Ella L. James;Michael B. Bonsall;Laura Hoppitt;Elizabeth M. Tunbridge

  • The causal effect of mental imagery on emotion assessed using picture-word cues

    Emily A. Holmes;Andrew Mathews;Bundy Mackintosh;Tim Dalgleish

  • Induction of depressed mood disrupts emotion regulation neurocircuitry and enhances pain unpleasantness

    Chantal Berna;Siri Leknes;Emily A. Holmes;Robert R. Edwards

Frequent Co-Authors

Guy M. Goodwin
Guy M. Goodwin University of Oxford
Ann Hackmann
Ann Hackmann University of Oxford
Michelle L. Moulds
Michelle L. Moulds University of New South Wales
James Bennett-Levy
James Bennett-Levy Southern Cross University
Catherine J. Harmer
Catherine J. Harmer University of Oxford
Colin MacLeod
Colin MacLeod University of Western Australia
Filip Raes
Filip Raes KU Leuven
Irene Tracey
Irene Tracey University of Oxford
Jennifer Y. F. Lau
Jennifer Y. F. Lau Queen Mary University of London
Chris R. Brewin
Chris R. Brewin University College London

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