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
- harrewijn@essb.eur.nl
- Room
- T13-40
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- 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 KapoÄŸlu, 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, NarcĂs 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, RaÅŸit TĂ¼kel, P Michiel Westenberg, Alexandre Heeren, Henk R Cremers, David Hofmann, Thomas Straube, Alexander G G Doruyter, Christine Lochner, Jutta Peterburs, Marie-JosĂ© Van Tol, Raquel E Gur, Antonia N Kaczkurkin, Bart Larsen, Theodore D Satterthwaite, Courtney A Filippi, Andrea L Gold, Anita Harrewijn, AndrĂ© Zugman, Robin BĂ¼low, 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 MĂ¥nsson, 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]
- , Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam, Rachel Bernstein, Brenda E. Benson, Kristin A. Buss, Kelley E. Gunther, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Giovanni A. Salum, Andrea P. Jackowski, Rodrigo A. Bressan, André Zugman, Kathryn A. Degnan, Courtney A. Filippi, Nathan A. Fox, Heather A. Henderson, Alva Tang, Selin Zeytinoglu, Anita Harrewijn, Manon H.J. Hillegers, Tonya White, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Carl E. Schwartz, Julia M. Felicione, Kathryn A. DeYoung, Alexander J. Shackman, Jason F. Smith, Rachael M. Tillman, Yvonne H.M. van den Berg, Antonius H.N. Cillessen, Karin Roelofs, Anna Tyborowska, Shirley Y. Hill, Marco Battaglia, Marco Tettamanti, Lea R. Dougherty, Jingwen Jin, Daniel N. Klein, Hoi Chung Leung, Suzanne N. Avery, Jennifer Urbano Blackford, Jacqueline A. Clauss, Elizabeth P. Hayden, Pan Liu, Matthew R.J. Vandermeer, H. Hill Goldsmith, Elizabeth M. Planalp, Thomas E. Nichols, Paul M. Thompson, P. Michiel Westenberg, Nic J.A. van der Wee & Nynke A. Groenewold (2022) - Structural brain correlates of childhood inhibited temperament: An ENIGMA-anxiety mega-analysis - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 61 (9), 1182-1188 - doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2022.04.023 - [link]
- Kristie L. Poole, Kathryn A. Degnan, Anita Harrewijn, Alisa Almas, Nathan A Fox & Heather A. Henderson (2022) - Trajectories of socially anxious behavior from age 5 to 13: Temperamental and sociocognitive pathways - Child Development, 93 (5), 1334-1346 - doi: 10.1111/cdev.13767 - [link]
- Sandra Naumann, Michelle L. Byrne, Alethia de la Fuente, Anita Harrewijn, Tehila Nugiel, Maya Rosen, Nienke van Atteveldt & Pawel J. Matusz (2022) - Assessing the degree of ecological validity of your study: Introducing the multidimensional assessment of research in context (MARC) tool - Mind, Brain, and Education, 16 (3), 228-238 - doi: 10.1111/mbe.12318
- Simone P. Haller, Camille Archer, Annie Jeong, Allison Jaffe, Emily L. Jones, Anita Harrewijn, Reut Naim, Julia O. Linke, Joel Stoddard & Melissa A. Brotman (2022) - Changes in internalizing symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic in a transdiagnostic sample of youth exploring mediators and predictors - Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 55 (1), 206-218 - doi: 10.1007/s10578-022-01382-z - [link]
- Reut Naim, Simone P Haller, Julia O Linke, Allison Jaffe, Joel Stoddard, Matt Jones, Anita Harrewijn, Katharina Kircanski, Yair Bar-Haim & Melissa A Brotman (2022) - Context-dependent amygdala-prefrontal connectivity during the dot-probe task varies by irritability and attention bias to angry faces - Neuropsychopharmacology, 47 (13), 2283-2291 - doi: 10.1038/s41386-022-01307-3 - [link]
- Rany Abend, Sonia G. Ruiz, Mira A. Bajaj, Anita Harrewijn, Julia O. Linke, Lauren Y. Atlas, Anderson M. Winkler & Daniel S. Pine (2022) - Threat imminence reveals links among unfolding of anticipatory physiological response, cortical-subcortical intrinsic functional connectivity, and anxiety - Neurobiology of Stress, 16 - doi: 10.1016/j.ynstr.2022.100428 - [link]
- Rany Abend, Sonia Ruiz, Mira Bajaj, Anita Harrewijn, Julia Linke, Lauren Atlas & Daniel Pine (2021) - Threat imminence reveals distinct links among anxiety, anticipatory physiological response, and cortical-subcortical intrinsic functional connectivity - Neuropsychopharmacology, 46 (SUPPL 1), 94-95 - [link]
- Nynke A. Groenewold, Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam, Moji Aghajani, Kevin Hilbert, Andre Zugman, Miquel A. Fullana, Anita Harrewijn, Elise M. Cardinale, Eline Roelofs, Max A. Laansma, Laura S. van Velzen, Sophia I. Thomopoulos, Neda Jahanshad, Anderson M. Winkler, Paul M. Thompson, Dick J. Veltman, Ulrike Lueken, Daniel S. Pine, Dan J. Stein & Nic J. A. van der Wee (2021) - Brain characteristics associated with anxiety disorders: An update from the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group - Journal of Neural Transmission, 128 (11), 1807-1808 - [link]
- Anita Harrewijn, Elise M. Cardinale, Nynke A. Groenewold, Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam, Moji Aghajani, Kevin Hilbert, Narcis Cardoner, Daniel Porta-CasterĂ s, Savannah Gosnell, Ramiro Salas, Andrea P. Jackowski, Pedro M. Pan, Giovanni A. Salum, Karina S. Blair, James R. Blair, Mira Z. Hammoud, Mohammed R. Milad, Katie L. Burkhouse, K. Luan Phan, Heidi K. Schroeder, Jeffrey R. Strawn, Katja Beesdo-Baum, Neda Jahanshad, Sophia I. Thomopoulos, Randy Buckner, Jared A. Nielsen, Jordan W. Smoller, Jair C. Soares, Benson Mwangi, Mon Ju Wu, Giovana B. Zunta-Soares, Michal Assaf, Gretchen J. Diefenbach, Paolo Brambilla, Eleonora Maggioni, David Hofmann, Thomas Straube, Carmen Andreescu, Rachel Berta, Erica Tamburo, Rebecca B. Price, Gisele G. Manfro, Federica Agosta, Elisa Canu, Camilla Cividini, Massimo Filippi, Milutin Kostić, Ana Munjiza Jovanovic, Bianca A.V. Alberton, Brenda Benson, Gabrielle F. Freitag, Courtney A. Filippi, Andrea L. Gold, Ellen Leibenluft, Grace V. Ringlein, Kathryn E. Werwath, Hannah Zwiebel, AndrĂ© Zugman, Hans J. Grabe, Sandra Van der Auwera, Katharina Wittfeld, Henry Völzke, Robin BĂ¼low, Nicholas L. Balderston, Monique Ernst, Christian Grillon, Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi, Helena van Nieuwenhuizen, Hugo D. Critchley, Elena Makovac, Matteo Mancini, Frances Meeten, Cristina Ottaviani, Tali M. Ball, Gregory A. Fonzo, Martin P. Paulus, Murray B. Stein, Raquel E. Gur, Ruben C. Gur, Antonia N. Kaczkurkin, Bart Larsen, Theodore D. Satterthwaite, Jennifer Harper, Michael Myers, Michael T. Perino, Chad M. Sylvester, Qiongru Yu, Ulrike Lueken, Dick J. Veltman, Paul M. Thompson, Dan J. Stein, Nic J.A. Van der Wee, Anderson M. Winkler & Daniel S. Pine (2021) - Cortical and subcortical brain structure in generalized anxiety disorder: Findings from 28 research sites in the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group - Translational Psychiatry, 11 (1) - doi: 10.1038/s41398-021-01622-1 - [link]
- Anita Harrewijn, Rany Abend, Reut Naim, Simona Haller, Caitlin Stavish, Mira Bajaj, Chika Matsumoto, Kelly Dombek, Elise Cardinale, Katharina Kircanski & Melissa Brotman (2021) - Attention bias to negative versus non-negative faces is related to negative affectivity in a transdiagnostic youth sample - Journal of Psychiatric Research, 138, 514-518 - doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.04.036
- A (Anita) Harrewijn (2021) - Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship
1.3.2C Mental health challenges
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- FSWP1-060-A