Email 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
Finnegan, S. L., Harrison, O. K., Booth, S., Dennis, A., Ezra, M., Harmer, C. J., … Pattinson, K. T. S. (2023). The effect of D-cycloserine on brain processing of breathlessness over pulmonary rehabilitation: An experimental medicine study. ERJ Open Research, 9(2), 00479-2022. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00479-2022
Kemp, A., Pattinson, K., Glue, P., Russell, B., & Harrison, O. (2022, September). Assessing the relationship between sub-clinical anxiety and resting state functional connectivity. Verbal presentation at the Postgraduate & Early Career Researchers Committee (PERC) & Division of Health Sciences Early & Mid-Career Researcher (EMCR) Joint Research Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Kemp, A., Pattinson, K., Glue, P., Russell, B., & Harrison, O. (2022). Assessing the relationship between sub-clinical anxiety and resting state functional connectivity. In K. Horne (Ed.), Proceedings of the 38th International Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research (AWCBR). (pp. 86). Retrieved from https://www.queenstownresearchweek.org
Cawood, S., Neehoff, S., Glue, P., Williams, J., Ryan, M., Russell, B., & Harrison, O. (2022). Investigating the relationship between microRNA expression, brain structure and biochemistry in anxiety disorders and their potential treatment with ketamine. In K. Horne (Ed.), Proceedings of the 38th International Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research (AWCBR). (pp. 82). Retrieved from https://www.queenstownresearchweek.org
Dawson, C., Schoss, S., Russell, B. R., Sellbom, M., & Harrison, O. (2022). Assessing the relationship between intrinsic motivations, personality traits and mental health. In K. Horne (Ed.), Proceedings of the 38th International Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research (AWCBR). (pp. 77). Retrieved from https://www.queenstownresearchweek.org
Finnegan, S. L., Harrison, O. K., Booth, S., Dennis, A., Ezra, M., Harmer, C. J., … Pattinson, K. T. S. (2023). The effect of D-cycloserine on brain processing of breathlessness over pulmonary rehabilitation: An experimental medicine study. ERJ Open Research, 9(2), 00479-2022. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00479-2022
Journal - Research Article
Harrison, O., Russell, B. R., & Pattinson, K. T. S. (2022). Perceptual and ventilatory responses to hypercapnia in athletes and sedentary individuals. Frontiers in Physiology, 13, 820307. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2022.820307
Journal - Research Article
Nikolova, N., Harrison, O., Toohey, S., Brændholt, M., Legrand, N., Correa, C., … Allen, M. (2022). The respiratory resistance sensitivity task: An automated method for quantifying respiratory interoception and metacognition. Biological Psychology, 170, 103325. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108325
Journal - Research Article
Talks, B. J., Campbell, C., Larcombe, S. J., Marlow, L., Finnegan, S. L., Lewis, C. T., … Harrison, O. K., & Pattinson, K. T. S. (2022). Baseline psychological traits contribute to Lake Louise Acute Mountain Sickness Score at high altitude. High Altitude Medicine & Biology, 23(1), 69-77. doi: 10.1089/ham.2021.0073
Journal - Research Article
Finnegan, S. L., Harrison, O. K., Harmer, C. J., Herigstad, M., Rahman, N. M., Reinecke, A., & Pattinson, K. T. S. (2021). Breathlessness in COPD: Linking symptom clusters with brain activity. European Respiratory Journal, 58, 2004099. doi: 10.1183/13993003.04099-2020
Journal - Research Article
Harrison, O. K., Garfinkel, S. N., Marlow, L., Finnegan, S. L., Marino, S., Köchli, L., … Fleming, S. M. (2021). The filter detection task for measurement of breathing-related interoception and metacognition. Biological Psychology, 165, 108185. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108185
Journal - Research Article
Harrison, O. K., Guell, X., Klein-Flügge, M. C., & Barry, R. L. (2021). Structural and resting state functional connectivity beyond the cortex. NeuroImage, 240, 118379. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118379
Journal - Research Article
Harrison, O. K., Hayen, A., Wager, T. D., & Pattinson, K. T. S. (2021). Investigating the specificity of the neurologic pain signature against breathlessness and finger opposition. Pain, 162(12), 2933-2944. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002327
Journal - Research Article
Harrison, O. K., Köchli, L., Marino, S., Luechinger, R., Hennel, F., Brand, K., … Stephan, K. E. (2021). Interoception of breathing and its relationship with anxiety. Neuron, 109, 4080-4093. doi: 10.1016/ j.neuron.2021.09.045
Journal - Research Article
Dearlove, D. J., Faull, O. K., Rolls, E., Clarke, K., & Cox, P. J. (2019). Nutritional ketoacidosis during incremental exercise in healthy athletes. Frontiers in Physiology, 10, 290. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00290
Journal - Research Article
Faull, O. K., Dearlove, D. J., Clarke, K., & Cox, P. J. (2019). Beyond RPE: The perception of exercise under normal and ketotic conditions. Frontiers in Physiology, 10, 229. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00229
Journal - Research Article
Faull, O. K., Cox, P. J., & Pattinson, K. T. S. (2018). Cortical processing of breathing perceptions in the athletic brain. NeuroImage, 179, 92-101. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.06.021
Journal - Research Article
Faull, O. K., & Pattinson, K. T. S. (2017). The cortical connectivity of the periaqueductal gray and the conditioned response to the threat of breathlessness. eLIFE, 6, e21749. doi: 10.7554/eLife.21749
Journal - Research Article
Faull, O. K., Hayen, A., & Pattinson, K. T. S. (2017). Breathlessness and the body: Neuroimaging clues for the inferential leap. Cortex, 95, 211-221. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2017.07.019
Journal - Research Article
Hayen, A., Wanigasekera, V., Faull, O. K., Campbell, S. F., Garry, P. S., Raby, S. J. M., … Pattinson, K. T. S. (2017). Opioid suppression of conditioned anticipatory brain responses to breathlessness. NeuroImage, 150, 383-394. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.01.005
Journal - Research Article
Herigstad, M., Faull, O. K., Hayen, A., Evans, E., Hardinge, F. M., Wiech, K., & Pattinson, K. T. S. (2017). Treating breathlessness via the brain: Changes in brain activity over a course of pulmonary rehabilitation. European Respiratory Journal, 50(3), 1701029. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01029-2017
Journal - Research Article
Stubbs, B. J., Cox, P. J., Evans, R. D., Santer, P., Miller, J. J., Faull, O. K., … Clarke, K. (2017). On the metabolism of exogenous ketones in humans. Frontiers in Physiology, 8, 848. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2017.00848
Journal - Research Article
Faull, O. K., Cox, P. J., & Pattinson, K. T. S. (2016). Psychophysical differences in ventilatory awareness and breathlessness between athletes and sedentary individuals. Frontiers in Physiology, 7, 231. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2016.00231
Journal - Research Article
Faull, O. K., Jenkinson, M., Ezra, M., & Pattinson, K. T. S. (2016). Conditioned respiratory threat in the subdivisions of the human periaqueductal gray. eLIFE, 5, e12047. doi: 10.7554/eLife.12047.001
Journal - Research Article
Ezra, M., Faull, O. K., Jbabdi, S., & Pattinson, K. T. (2015). Connectivity-based segmentation of the periaqueductal gray matter in human with brainstem optimized diffusion MRI. Human Brain Mapping, 36(9), 3459-3471. doi: 10.1002/hbm.22855
Journal - Research Article
Faull, O. K., Cotter, J. D., & Lucas, S. J. E. (2015). Cerebrovascular responses during rowing: Do circadian rhythms explain morning and afternoon performance differences? Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 25(4), 467-475. doi: 10.1111/sms.12273
Journal - Research Article
Faull, O. K., Jenkinson, M., Clare, S., & Pattinson, K. T. S. (2015). Functional subdivision of the human periaqueductal grey in respiratory control using 7 tesla fMRI. NeuroImage, 113, 356-364. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.02.026
Journal - Research Article
Faull, O. K., Robertson, J., Thomas, O., Bradwell, A. R., Antoniades, C. A., & Pattinson, K. T. S. (2015). The effect of acetazolamide on saccadic latency at 3459 meters. Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, 26(1), 72-77. doi: 10.1016/j.wem.2014.08.017
Journal - Research Article
Frässle, S., Aponte, E. A., Bollmann, S., Brodersen, K. H., Do, C. T., Harrison, O. K., … Stephan, K. E. (2021). TAPAS: An open-source software package for Translational Neuromodeling and Computational Psychiatry. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 680811. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.680811
Journal - Research Other
Harrison, O. K., Marlow, L., Finnegan, S. L., Ainsworth, B., & Pattinson, K. T. S. (2021). Dissociating breathlessness symptoms from mood in asthma. Biological Psychology, 165, 108193. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108193
Journal - Research Other
Rieger, S. W., Stephan, K. E., & Harrison, O. K. (2020). Remote, automated, and MRI-compatible administration of interoceptive inspiratory resistive loading. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14, 161. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.00161
Journal - Research Other
Abdallah, S. J., Faull, O. K., Wanigasekera, V., Finnegan, S. L., Jensen, D., & Pattinson, K. T. S. (2019). Opioids for breathlessness: Psychological and neural factors influencing response variability. European Respiratory Journal, 54(3), 1900275. doi: 10.1183/13993003.00275-2019
Journal - Research Other
Dearlove, D. J., Faull, O. K., & Clarke, K. (2019). Context is key: Exogenous ketosis and athletic performance. Current Opinion in Physiology, 10, 81-89. doi: 10.1016/j.cophys.2019.04.010
Journal - Research Other
Faull, O. K., Subramanian, H. H., Ezra, M., & Pattinson, K. T. S. (2019). The midbrain periaqueductal gray as an integrative and interoceptive neural structure for breathing. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 98, 135-144. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.12.020
Journal - Research Other
Marlow, L. L., Faull, O. K., Finnegan, S. L., & Pattinson, K. T. S. (2019). Breathlessness and the brain: The role of expectation. Current Opinion in Supportive & Palliative Care, 13(3), 200-210. doi: 10.1097/SPC.0000000000000441
Journal - Research Other
Faull, O. K., Marlow, L., Finnegan, S. L., & Pattinson, K. T. S. (2018). Chronic breathlessness: Re-thinking the symptom. European Respiratory Journal, 51, 1702238. doi: 10.1183/13993003.02238-2017
Journal - Research Other
Brooks, J. C. W., Faull, O. K., Pattinson, K. T. S., & Jenkinson, M. (2013). Physiological noise in brainstem fMRI. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 623. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00623
Journal - Research Other
Brand, K., Wise, T., Russell, B., & Harrison, O. (2022). Developing models of dynamic interoceptive learning. In K. Horne (Ed.), Proceedings of the 38th International Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research (AWCBR). (pp. 63). Retrieved from https://www.queenstownresearchweek.org
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Cawood, S., Neehoff, S., Glue, P., Williams, J., Ryan, M., Russell, B., & Harrison, O. (2022). Investigating the relationship between microRNA expression, brain structure and biochemistry in anxiety disorders and their potential treatment with ketamine. In K. Horne (Ed.), Proceedings of the 38th International Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research (AWCBR). (pp. 82). Retrieved from https://www.queenstownresearchweek.org
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Connor, M., Scanlon, O. K., Hargreaves, E. A., & Harrison, O. K. (2022). Resistance and aerobic exercise of moderate or self-selected intensity is effective in reducing anxiety. New Zealand Medical Journal, 135(1557), (pp. 105). Retrieved from https://journal.nzma.org.nz/
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Dawson, C., Schoss, S., Russell, B. R., Sellbom, M., & Harrison, O. (2022). Assessing the relationship between intrinsic motivations, personality traits and mental health. In K. Horne (Ed.), Proceedings of the 38th International Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research (AWCBR). (pp. 77). Retrieved from https://www.queenstownresearchweek.org
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Harrison, O. K., Köchli, L., Marino, S., Marlow, L., Finnegan, S. L., Ainsworth, B., Russell, B. R., … Stephan, K. E. (2022). Anxiety is associated with interoceptive insight deficits in women but not men. In K. Horne (Ed.), Proceedings of the 38th International Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research (AWCBR). (pp. 39). Retrieved from https://www.queenstownresearchweek.org
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Kemp, A., Pattinson, K., Glue, P., Russell, B., & Harrison, O. (2022). Assessing the relationship between sub-clinical anxiety and resting state functional connectivity. In K. Horne (Ed.), Proceedings of the 38th International Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research (AWCBR). (pp. 86). Retrieved from https://www.queenstownresearchweek.org
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Kwon, M., van 't Hof, S., Botvinik-Nezer, R., Amini, M., Bango, C., Hunt, B., … Harrison, O., … Wager, T. D. (2021). The Affective Neuroimaging Collaboratory (ANiC) Towards a better understanding of the neural architecture of affective processes. Proceedings of the Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting. P690.09. Retrieved from https://www.sfn.org/meetings/neuroscience-2021
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Faull, O., Cox, P., & Pattinson, K. (2017). The efficient athlete brain: Cortical processing of breathlessness. Brain & Neuroscience Advances, 1, P-M032. doi: 10.1177/2398212817705279
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Cox, P. J., Cvetko, F., Faull, O., Kirk, T., Stubbs, B. J., & Clarke, K. (2016). Nutritional ketosis: A metabolic replacement for glucose in exercise performance? Proceedings of The Physiological Society, 37, PCA182. Retrieved from http://www.physoc.org
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Cox, P. J., Faull, O., Ashmore, T., Stubbs, B. J., Dearlove, D., Murray, A., … Clarke, K. (2016). Nutritional ketosis regulates BCAA metabolism in exercise. Proceedings of The Physiological Society, 37, PCA183. Retrieved from http://www.physoc.org
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Stubbs, B. J., Cox, P. J., Faull, O., Kirk, T., Willerton, K., & Clarke, K. (2016). The role of muscle fibre type in skeletal muscle substrate oxidation during nutritional ketosis. Proceedings of The Physiological Society, 37, PCA184. Retrieved from http://www.physoc.org
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Ezra, M., Faull, O. K., Jbabdi, S., & Pattinson, K. T. S. (2014). Connectivity based segmentation of the periaqueductal grey matter in humans with diffusion tensor imaging. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonancing & Medicine, 22, 0052. Retrieved from https://www.semanticscholar.org
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Faull, O., Rieger, S., Marino, S., Nanz, L., Luechinger, R., Hennel, F., … Stephan, K. E. (2020, June-July). Cortical processing of interoceptive prediction errors using inspiratory resistive loads. Poster session presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 26th Annual Meeting, [Online].
Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)
Finnegan, S., Faull, O., Harmer, C., Herigstad, M., Rahman, N., Reinecke, A., & Pattinson, K. (2020, June-July). Neuropsychological models of breathlessness. Poster session presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 26th Annual Meeting, [Online].
Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)
Faull, O., & Pattinson, K. (2017, June). The cortical connectivity of the periaqueductal gray and the conditioned threat of breathlessness. Poster session presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 23rd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada.
Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)
Faull, O. K., Ezra, M., & Pattinson, K. T. S. (2015, June). The role of the ventrolateral periqueductal gray in conditioned responses to breathlessness. Poster session presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 21st Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI.
Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)
Harrison, O. (2022, July). Anxiety is only associated with deficits in interoceptive insight in women and not men. Verbal presentation at the Brain Health Research Centre (BHRC) Hui ā Tau Annual Conference: Te Haerenga o te tangata: Lifespan, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Kemp, A., Pattinson, K., Glue, P., Russell, B., & Harrison, O. (2022, September). Assessing the relationship between sub-clinical anxiety and resting state functional connectivity. Verbal presentation at the Postgraduate & Early Career Researchers Committee (PERC) & Division of Health Sciences Early & Mid-Career Researcher (EMCR) Joint Research Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
