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Olivia Harrison imageEmail olivia.harrison@otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 8818

My research focuses on mental health and its relationship to interoception (how we perceive our body).

I use neuroimaging and computational models to better understand how the brain perceives and learns about changes in the body, with a particular focus on breathing. My work also aims to understand how currently available treatments such as anxiolytics and exercise can improve conditions such as anxiety and depression.

Publications

Harrison, O. K., Köchli, L., Marino, S., Marlow, L., Finnegan, S. L., Ainsworth, B., … Russell, B. R., … Stephan, K. E. (2025). Gender differences in the association between anxiety and interoceptive insight. European Journal of Neuroscience, 61(1), e16672. doi: 10.1111/ejn.16672 Journal - Research Other

McNeill, R., Marshall, R., Fernando, S. A., Harrison, O., & Machado, L. (2025). COVID-19 may enduringly impact cognitive performance and brain haemodynamics in undergraduate students. Brain, Behavior & Immunity, 125, 58-67. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2024.12.002 Journal - Research Article

Gans, J., McLeod-Edwards, E., Gorman, F., Russell, B. R., & Harrison, O. K. (2024, August-September). SSRI effects on emotion recognition in anxiety. Poster session presented at the Queenstown Research Week (QRW) Mental Health Meeting, Queenstown, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)

Kemp, A. M., Glue, P., Russell, B. R., & Harrison, O. K. (2024, August-September). Amygdala connectivity during perception of emotional faces in individuals with treatment-refractory anxiety disorders. Poster session presented at the Queenstown Research Week (QRW) Mental Health Meeting, Queenstown, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)

Paul, J., Russell, B. R., Turner, R., & Harrison, O. K. (2024, August-September). Investigating the effect of exercise on physiological and perceptual hypercapnic responses in anxiety. Verbal presentation at the Queenstown Research Week (QRW) Mental Health Meeting, Queenstown, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

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