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Honorary Treasurer: Dr Catherine Harmer, PhD
University of Oxford. Catherine.Harmer@psych.ox.ac.uk
Honorary Treasurer until 2014
Catherine Harmer's research interests span experimental psychology, psychiatry and pharmacology. In 1998 she completed her PhD thesis on the role of the mesoamygdaloid dopamine projection in learning and reward at the University of York under the supervision of Dr Gavin Phillips. Since then she has been based in Oxford as a MRC pre-clinical Training Fellow, University Lecturer and now Senior Research Fellow. Her current research focuses on the psychological mechanisms of antidepressant drug action by exploring drug effects on human models of emotional processing. A range of methodologies are used, including neuropsychological testing, transcranial magnetic stimulation and functional neuroimaging with fMRI and PET in healthy volunteers and patient groups.
She has been a member of the BAP since 1996 and has attended every summer meeting since then. In 1997 she was awarded a BAP poster prize and in 2004 the BAP/Vernalis prize for pre-clinical psychopharmacology. She holds the BAP in high esteem and has benefited from BAP membership and from the forum provided by its meetings and journal for many years. This Association allows communication between pre-clinical and clinical researchers and is a stimulating and exciting environment for PhD students, post-docs and international experts to present, hear about and discuss contemporary and exciting new work.
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- InVivoStat Statistical Analysis on
23rd August 2010
New BAP Education web page describing InVivoStat: The Statistical Tool for all Psychopharmacologists. Click here to read more InVivoStat - Information for the Public on
4th August 2010
We are pleased to launch our Public Web Pages. These are intended for members of the public with an interest in psychopharmacology. Public Web Page - Review of Mental Health Research on
5th July 2010
In 2009, BAP contributed to the Medical Research Council’s Review of Mental Health Research. The Report has recently been published. A summary report may be found here; MRC Mental Health Research Summary Report. Professor Barbara Sahakian, who will become BAP President-elect later this month, has written an article in the Lancet “A UK strategy for mental health and wellbeing”, also available here; Lancet article