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
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Work
- Elizabeth R. Kitt, Rany Abend, Paia Amelio, Jordan Galbraith, Anjali D. Poe, Dylan G. Gee, Daniel S. Pine & Anita Harrewijn (2025) - Using mobile eye-tracking to evaluate gaze behavior during a speech in pediatric anxiety disorders - Journal of Affective Disorders, 369, 462-466 - doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.10.024 - [link]
- Meghan E Byrne, Sara Kirschner, Anita Harrewijn, Rany Abend, Amit Lazarov, Lucrezia Liuzzi, Katharina Kircanski, Simone P Haller, Yair Bar-Haim & Daniel S Pine (2024) - Eye-tracking measurement of attention bias to social threat among youth: A replication and extension study - Journal of mood and anxiety disorders, 8 - doi: 10.1016/j.xjmad.2024.100075
- Kevin Hilbert, Ole Jonas Boeken, Till Langhammer, Nynke A Groenewold, Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam, Moji Aghajani, André Zugman, Fredrik Åhs, Volker Arolt, Katja Beesdo-Baum, Johannes Björkstrand, Jennifer U Blackford, Laura Blanco-Hinojo, Joscha Böhnlein, Robin Bülow, Marta Cano, Narcis Cardoner, Xavier Caseras, Udo Dannlowski, Katharina Domschke, Lydia Fehm, Brandee Feola, Mats Fredrikson, Liesbet Goossens, Hans J Grabe, Dominik Grotegerd, Raquel E Gur, Alfons O Hamm, Anita Harrewijn, Ingmar Heinig, Martin J Herrmann, David Hofmann, Andrea P Jackowski, Andreas Jansen, Antonia N Kaczkurkin, Merel Kindt, Ellen N Kingsley, Tilo Kircher, Anna L Klahn, Katja Koelkebeck, Axel Krug, Harald Kugel, Bart Larsen, Elisabeth J Leehr, Lieselotte Leonhardt, Martin Lotze, Jürgen Margraf, Jarosław Michałowski, Markus Muehlhan, Igor Nenadić, Pedro M Pan, Paul Pauli, Wenceslao Peñate, Andre Pittig, Jens Plag, Jesus Pujol, Jan Richter, Francisco L Rivero, Giovanni A Salum, Theodore D Satterthwaite, Axel Schäfer, Judith Schäfer, Anne Schienle, Silvia Schneider, Elisabeth Schrammen, Koen Schruers, Stefan M Schulz, Esther Seidl, Rudolf M Stark, Frederike Stein, Benjamin Straube, Thomas Straube, Andreas Ströhle, Boris Suchan, Sophia I Thomopoulos, Carlos Ventura-Bort, Renee Visser, Henry Völzke, Albert Wabnegger, André Wannemüller, Julia Wendt, Julian Wiemer, Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, Katharina Wittfeld, Barry Wright, Yunbo Yang, Anna Zilverstand, Peter Zwanzger, Dick J Veltman, Anderson M Winkler, Daniel S Pine, Neda Jahanshad, Paul M Thompson, Dan J Stein, Nic J A Van der Wee & Ulrike Lueken (2024) - Cortical and Subcortical Brain Alterations in Specific Phobia and Its Animal and Blood-Injection-Injury Subtypes: A Mega-Analysis From the ENIGMA Anxiety Working Group - American Journal of Psychiatry - doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.20230032
- Anita Harrewijn, Rosa H. Mulder, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Matthias J. Wieser & Pauline W. Jansen (2024) - Four distinct peer intraction variables as moderators of the fearful temperament-anxiety association, using data from the Generation R Study - JCPP Advances - doi: 10.1002/jcv2.12254 - [link]
- Yvette Grootjans, Anita Harrewijn, Laura Fornari, Tieme Janssen, Ellen R A de Bruijn, Nienke van Atteveldt & Ingmar H A Franken (2024) - Getting closer to social interactions using electroencephalography in developmental cognitive neuroscience - Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 67 - doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101391 - [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, 43 (20), 18095-18108 - doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-05599-6 - [link]
- 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]
- Willem B. Bruin, Paul Zhutovsky, Guido A. van Wingen, Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam, Nynke A. Groenewold, Kevin Hilbert, Anderson M. Winkler, Andre Zugman, Federica Agosta, Fredrik Åhs, Carmen Andreescu, Chase Antonacci, Takeshi Asami, Michal Assaf, Jacques P. Barber, Jochen Bauer, Shreya Y. Bavdekar, Katja Beesdo-Baum, Francesco Benedetti, Rachel Bernstein, Johannes Björkstrand, Robert J. Blair, Karina S. Blair, Laura Blanco-Hinojo, Joscha Böhnlein, Paolo Brambilla, Rodrigo A. Bressan, Fabian Breuer, Marta Cano, Elisa Canu, Elise M. Cardinale, Narcís Cardoner, Camilla Cividini, Henk Cremers, Udo Dannlowski, Gretchen J. Diefenbach, Katharina Domschke, Alexander G. G. Doruyter, Thomas Dresler, Angelika Erhardt, Massimo Filippi, Gregory A. Fonzo, Gabrielle F. Freitag, Tomas Furmark, Tian Ge, Andrew J. Gerber, Savannah N. Gosnell, Hans J. Grabe, Dominik Grotegerd, Ruben C. Gur, Raquel E. Gur, Alfons O. Hamm, Laura K. M. Han, Jennifer C. Harper, Anita Harrewijn, Alexandre Heeren, David Hofmann, Andrea P. Jackowski, Neda Jahanshad, Laura Jett, Antonia N. Kaczkurkin, Parmis Khosravi, Ellen N. Kingsley, Tilo Kircher, Milutin Kostic, Bart Larsen, Sang-Hyuk Lee, Elisabeth J. Leehr, Ellen Leibenluft, Christine Lochner, Su Lui, Eleonora Maggioni, Gisele G. Manfro, Kristoffer N. T. Månsson, Claire E. Marino, Frances Meeten, Barbara Milrod, Ana Munjiza Jovanovic, Benson Mwangi, Michael J. Myers, Susanne Neufang, Jared A. Nielsen, Patricia A. Ohrmann, Cristina Ottaviani, Martin P. Paulus, Michael T. Perino, K. Luan Phan, Sara Poletti, Daniel Porta-Casteràs, Jesus Pujol, Andrea Reinecke, Grace V. Ringlein, Pavel Rjabtsenkov, Karin Roelofs, Ramiro Salas, Giovanni A. Salum, Theodore D. Satterthwaite, Elisabeth Schrammen, Lisa Sindermann, Jordan W. Smoller, Jair C. Soares, Rudolf Stark, Frederike Stein, Thomas Straube, Benjamin Straube, Jeffrey R. Strawn, Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez, Chad M. Sylvester, Ardesheer Talati, Sophia I. Thomopoulos, Raşit Tükel, Helena van Nieuwenhuizen, Kathryn Werwath, Katharina Wittfeld, Barry Wright, Mon-Ju Wu, Yunbo Yang, Anna Zilverstand, Peter Zwanzger, Jennifer U. Blackford, Suzanne N. Avery, Jacqueline A. Clauss, Ulrike Lueken, Paul M. Thompson, Daniel S. Pine, Dan J. Stein, Nic J. A. van der Wee, Dick J. Veltman & Moji Aghajani (2024) - Brain-based classification of youth with anxiety disorders: transdiagnostic examinations within the ENIGMA-Anxiety database using machine learning - Nature Mental Health, 2, 104-118 - doi: 10.1038/s44220-023-00173-2
- 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]
- 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, 12 (4), 772-781 - doi: 10.1177/21677026231190349 - [link]
- A (Anita) Harrewijn (2021) - Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship
