Breathing and anxiety: Understanding the miscommunication between brain and body, and how best to treat it

Olivia Harrison - University of Otago, New Zealand

Wednesday, 08 April 2026, 12pm to 1pm

Hybrid via Teams and in-person in the Cowey Rooms, FMRIB Annexe

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Dr Olivia Harrison is a Rutherford Discovery Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Dr Harrison completed a double degree in Neuroscience and Exercise Physiology at Otago, before moving to the University of Oxford to study her DPhil in Clinical Neuroscience. She then completed a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship in Switzerland, before moving to the Department of Psychology at Otago in 2021. She received the New Zealand Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize for 2024, recognising the work of her and her team towards understanding and managing anxiety.

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