Biography
Why do some adolescents develop anxiety disorders, while others do not? And how can we use this knowledge for more effective interventions?
I study neural and behavioral correlates of attention bias and social stress to answer these questions. I study social and neural moderators of the temperament-anxiety association using Generation R data, as part of my Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship. Before, I was a post-doctoral researcher at the NIMH with Dr. Daniel Pine and Prof. Nathan Fox. I led several fMRI and behavioral studies with children with and without anxiety disorders and analyzed data from a 16-year longitudinal fMRI study. I have received my PhD in Developmental Psychology from Leiden University (The Netherlands). My dissertation focused on delineating electrophysiological endophenotypes of social anxiety disorder.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Assistant professor | Clinical Psychology
- harrewijn@essb.eur.nl
- Room
- T13-40
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Simone P Haller, Julia O Linke, Hannah L Grassie, Emily L Jones, David Pagliaccio, Anita Harrewijn, Lauren K White, Reut Naim, Rany Abend, Ajitha Mallidi, Erin Berman, Krystal M Lewis, Katharina Kircanski, Nathan A Fox, Wendy K Silverman, Ned H Kalin, Yair Bar-Haim & Melissa A Brotman (2024) - Normalization of Fronto-Parietal Activation by Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Unmedicated Pediatric Patients With Anxiety Disorders - American Journal of Psychiatry, 181 (3), 201-212 - doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.20220449 - [link]
- Judith Torzillo, Selin Topel, Anita Harrewijn, Melle J.W. van der Molen & Frederik van der Veen (2024) - Subjective pain and reward in a social judgment paradigm - Current Psychology - doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-05599-6 - [link]
- RA Bernstein, AR Smith, ER Kitt, EM Cardinale, A Harrewijn, R Abend, KJ Michalska, DS Pine & K Kircanski (2023) - Threat Appraisal and Pediatric Anxiety: Proof of Concept of a Latent Variable Approach - Clinical Psychological Science - doi: 10.1177/21677026231190349 - [link]
- Naz Kapoğlu, Dalila Ruiz Y Kärkkäinen, Laura Tapio, Sam B. ter Haar, Marianne den Hertog, Rowan Huijgen, Anita Harrewijn, Brian Godor & Ruth Van der Hallen (2023) - What tools are in your coping toolbox? - Frontiers for Young Minds - doi: 10.3389/frym.2023.974011 - [link]
- S Haller, J Linke, H Grassie, E Jones, D Pagliaccio, A Harrewijn, L White, R Naim, A Mallidi, E Berman, K Lewis, K Kircanski, W Silverman, N Kalin, Y Bar-Haim & MA Brotman (2023) - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Normalizes FrontoParietal Activation in Unmedicated Patients With Pediatric Anxiety Disorders - Biological Psychiatry, 93 (9) - doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.02.624 - [link]
- Elise M Cardinale, Jessica Bezek, Santiago Morales, Courtney Filippi, Ashley R Smith, Simone Haller, Emilio A Valadez, Anita Harrewijn, Dominique Phillips, Andrea Chronis-Tuscano, Melissa A Brotman, Nathan A Fox, Daniel S Pine, Ellen Leibenluft & Katharina Kircanski (2023) - Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of anxiety and irritability with adolescents' neural responses to cognitive conflict - Biological Psychiatry-Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 8 (4), 436-444 - doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2022.03.007 - [link]
- Nynke A Groenewold, Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam, Alyssa R Amod, Max A Laansma, Laura S Van Velzen, Moji Aghajani, Kevin Hilbert, Hyuntaek Oh, Ramiro Salas, Andrea P Jackowski, Pedro M Pan, Giovanni A Salum, James R Blair, Karina S Blair, Joy Hirsch, Spiro P Pantazatos, Franklin R Schneier, Ardesheer Talati, Karin Roelofs, Inge Volman, Laura Blanco-Hinojo, Narcís Cardoner, Jesus Pujol, Katja Beesdo-Baum, Christopher R K Ching, Sophia I Thomopoulos, Andreas Jansen, Tilo Kircher, Axel Krug, Igor Nenadić, Frederike Stein, Udo Dannlowski, Dominik Grotegerd, Hannah Lemke, Susanne Meinert, Alexandra Winter, Michael Erb, Benjamin Kreifelts, Qiyong Gong, Su Lui, Fei Zhu, Benson Mwangi, Jair C Soares, Mon-Ju Wu, Ali Bayram, Mesut Canli, Raşit Tükel, P Michiel Westenberg, Alexandre Heeren, Henk R Cremers, David Hofmann, Thomas Straube, Alexander G G Doruyter, Christine Lochner, Jutta Peterburs, Marie-José Van Tol, Raquel E Gur, Antonia N Kaczkurkin, Bart Larsen, Theodore D Satterthwaite, Courtney A Filippi, Andrea L Gold, Anita Harrewijn, André Zugman, Robin Bülow, Hans J Grabe, Henry Völzke, Katharina Wittfeld, Joscha Böhnlein, Katharina Dohm, Harald Kugel, Elisabeth Schrammen, Peter Zwanzger, Elisabeth J Leehr, Lisa Sindermann, Tali M Ball, Gregory A Fonzo, Martin P Paulus, Alan Simmons, Murray B Stein, Heide Klumpp, K Luan Phan, Tomas Furmark, Kristoffer N T Månsson, Amirhossein Manzouri, Suzanne N Avery, Jennifer Urbano Blackford, Jacqueline A Clauss, Brandee Feola, Jennifer C Harper, Chad M Sylvester, Ulrike Lueken, Dick J Veltman, Anderson M Winkler, Neda Jahanshad, Daniel S Pine, Paul M Thompson, Dan J Stein & Nic J A Van der Wee (2023) - Volume of subcortical brain regions in social anxiety disorder: mega-analytic results from 37 samples in the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group - Molecular Psychiatry, 28 (3), 1079-1089 - doi: 10.1038/s41380-022-01933-9 - [link]
- Anita Harrewijn, Sonia G. Ruiz, Rany Abend, Simone P. Haller, Anni R. Subar, Caroline Swetlitz, Emilio A. Valadez, Melissa A. Brotman, Gang Chen, Andrea Chronis-Tuscano, Ellen Leibenluft, Yair Bar-Haim, Nathan A. Fox & Daniel S. Pine (2023) - Development of Neural Mechanisms Underlying Threat Processing: Associations With Childhood Social Reticence and Adolescent Anxiety - Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science, 3 (4), 893-901 - doi: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2023.01.008 - [link]
- Alva Tang, Anita Harrewijn, Brenda Benson, Simone P Haller, Amanda E Guyer, Koraly E Perez-Edgar, Argyris Stringaris, Monique Ernst, Melissa A Brotman, Daniel S Pine & Nathan A Fox (2022) - Striatal activity to reward anticipation as a moderator of the association between early behavioral inhibition and changes in anxiety and depressive symptoms from adolescence to adulthood - JAMA Psychiatry, 79 (12), 1199-1208 - doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.3483 - [link]
- Rany Abend, Julia Linke, Jordan Galbraith, Grace Ringlein, Laura Jett, Song Qi, Anita Harrewijn, Andre Zugman, Anderson Winkler & Daniel Pine (2022) - Aberrant Brain Function Reconfiguration During Naturalistic Fear Induction in Pediatric Anxiety Disorders: Novel Approach With Implications for Pathophysiological Mechanisms - [link]
- A (Anita) Harrewijn (2021) - Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship
1.3.2C Mental health challenges
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- FSWP1-060-A
