Dr Haeme Park
Conjoint Lecturer

Dr Haeme Park

Senior postdoctoral fellow, Gatt Resilience Group, NeuRA, 2019 - current

Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, 2015 - 2019

PhD in Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, The University of Auckland, 2015

MSc in Psychology (First Class Hons), The University of Auckland, 2010

Science
School of Psychology

I am interested in examining mechanisms that are involved in human behaviour and affective/cognitive processes, the relationships between these constructs, and how they affect emotional and developmental trajectories in both healthy and clinical populations. I completed my PhD on schizotypal personality at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, which focused on nonclinical individual differences that lead to differential behavioural and neural manifestations (using fMRI, sMRI, and EEG). This was followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in experimental psychology/neuroscience at Ghent University, Belgium, where I examined the neural overlap between motivational and emotional processes using fMRI. I am now currently working in the Gatt Resilience Group based at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA), examining the question of what makes some people more resilient to adversity compared to others. In particular, I am interested in how variability in mental wellbeing and resilience may be observed in the brain on both behavioural and neural levels across the lifespan, the psychosocial factors that contribute to such variability (e.g., personality traits, early life experiences), as well as genetic and environmental contributions (via examining twin populations).

Phone
+61 2 9399 1884
Location
Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) Margarete Ainsworth Building, Barker Street, Randwick
  • Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Associations between mental wellbeing and fMRI neural bases underlying responses to positive emotion in a twin sample', Psychological Medicine, 53, pp. 1215 - 1223, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721002695
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'The effect of target-related and target-irrelevant novel stimuli on response behaviour', Acta Psychologica, 232, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103818
    Journal articles | 2022
    Montalto A; Park HRP; Williams LM; Korgaonkar MS; Chilver MR; Jamshidi J; Schofield PR; Gatt JM, 2022, 'Negative association between anterior insula activation and resilience during sustained attention: An fMRI twin study', Psychological Medicine, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721005262
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Emotional face processing correlates with depression/anxiety symptoms but not wellbeing in non-clinical adults: An event-related potential study', Journal of Psychiatric Research, 145, pp. 18 - 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.11.038
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Grey matter covariation and the role of emotion reappraisal in mental wellbeing and resilience after early life stress exposure', Translational Psychiatry, 12, pp. 85, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41398-022-01849-6
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'TWIN-10: protocol for a 10-year longitudinal twin study of the neuroscience of mental well-being and resilience', BMJ Open, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058918
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Wellbeing and brain structure: A comprehensive phenotypic and genetic study of image-derived phenotypes in the UK Biobank', Human Brain Mapping, 43, pp. 5180 - 5193, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25993
    Journal articles | 2021
    Hoofs V; Park HRP; Vermeylen L; Boehler CN; Krebs RM, 2021, 'Neural underpinnings of valence-action interactions triggered by cues and targets in a rewarded approach/avoidance task', Cortex, 141, pp. 240 - 261, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.04.013
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Approach Coping Mitigates Distress of COVID-19 Isolation for Young Men With Low Well-Being in a Sample of 1,749 Youth From Australia and the USA', Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, pp. 634925, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.634925
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Associations between different white matter properties and reward-based performance modulation', Brain Structure and Function, 226, pp. 1007 - 1021, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00429-021-02222-x
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Cortical and subcortical neuroanatomical signatures of schizotypy in 3004 individuals assessed in a worldwide ENIGMA study', Molecular Psychiatry, 46, pp. S195 - S195, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41380-021-01359-9
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Negative Association Between the Bilateral Anterior Insula and Resilience During a Continuous Performance Task: An fMRI Twin Study', Biological Psychiatry, 89, pp. S175 - S176, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.02.448
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'The cognitive and neural correlates of written language: a selective review of bilingualism', Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 51, pp. 81 - 96, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2020.1779093
    Journal articles | 2020
    Chilver MR; Keller AS; Park HRP; Jamshidi J; Montalto A; Schofield PR; Clark CR; Harmon-Jones E; Williams LM; Gatt JM, 2020, 'Electroencephalography profiles as a biomarker of wellbeing: A twin study', Journal of Psychiatric Research, 126, pp. 114 - 121, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2020.04.010
    Journal articles | 2020
    Jamshidi J; Williams LM; Schofield PR; Park HRP; Montalto A; Chilver MR; Bryant RA; Toma C; Fullerton JM; Gatt JM, 2020, 'Diverse phenotypic measurements of wellbeing: Heritability, temporal stability and the variance explained by polygenic scores', Genes, Brain and Behavior, 19, pp. e12694, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gbb.12694
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Are all behavioral reward benefits created equally? An EEG-fMRI study', NeuroImage, 215, pp. 116829 - 116829, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116829
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Neural correlates of reward-related response tendencies in an equiprobable Go/NoGo task', Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 19, pp. 555 - 567, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13415-019-00692-5
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Winning smiles: Signalling reward by overlapping and non-overlapping emotional valence differentially affects performance and neural activity', Neuropsychologia, 122, pp. 28 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.11.018
    Journal articles | 2018
    2018, 'Modulation of locus coeruleus activity by novel oddball stimuli', Brain Imaging and Behavior, 12, pp. 577 - 584, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11682-017-9700-4
    Journal articles | 2018
    2018, 'Smiling faces and cash bonuses: Exploring common affective coding across positive and negative emotional and motivational stimuli using fMRI', Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 18, pp. 550 - 563, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13415-018-0587-3
    Journal articles | 2017
    2017, 'Associations between schizotypy and cerebral laterality', Laterality, 22, pp. 195 - 218, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2016.1154066
    Journal articles | 2016
    2016, 'Identifying grey matter changes in schizotypy using partial least squares correlation', Cortex, 81, pp. 137 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2016.04.011
    Journal articles | 2015
    2015, 'Neural correlates of creative thinking and schizotypy', Neuropsychologia, 73, pp. 94 - 107, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.05.007
    Journal articles | 2015
    2015, 'P50 sensory gating deficits in schizotypy', Personality and Individual Differences, 82, pp. 142 - 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2015.03.025
    Journal articles | 2012
    2012, 'Brain activity in bilingual developmental dyslexia: An fMRI study', Neurocase, 18, pp. 286 - 297, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13554794.2011.588182
    Journal articles | 2012
    2012, 'Language lateralisation in late proficient bilinguals: A lexical decision fMRI study', Neuropsychologia, 50, pp. 688 - 695, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.01.005
  • Preprints | 2022
    2022, The effect of task-relevant and task-irrelant novel stimui on response behaviour, , http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bzq9p
    Preprints | 2021
    Kirschner M; Hodzic-Santor B; Antoniades M; Nenadic I; Kircher T; Krug A; Meller T; Grotegerd D; Fornito A; Arnatkeviciute A; Bellgrove M; Tiego J; Dannlowski U; Koch K; Hülsmann C; Kugel H; Enneking V; Klug M; Leehr E; Böhnlein J; Gruber M; Mehler D; DeRosse P; Moyett A; Baune B; Green M; Quidé Y; Pantelis C; Chan R; Wang Y; Ettinger U; Debbané M; Derome M; Gaser C; Besteher B; Diederen K; Spencer T; Fletcher P; Rössler W; Smigielski L; Kumari V; Premkumar P; Park H; Wiebels K; Lemmers-Jansen I; Gilleen J; Allen P; Kozhuharova P; Marsman J-B; Lebedeva I; Tomyshev A; Mukhorina A; Kaiser S; Fett A-K; Sommer I; Schuite-Koops S; Paquola C; Larivière S; Bernhardt B; Dagher A; Grant P; van Erp T; Turner J; Thompson P; Aleman A; Modinos G, 2021, Cortical and Subcortical Neuroanatomical Signatures of Schizotypy in 3,004 Individuals Assessed in a Worldwide ENIGMA Study, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.29.21255609
    Conference Abstracts | 2021
    2021, 'Cortical and Subcortical Neuroanatomical Signatures of Schizotypy in 2,952 Individuals Assessed in a Worldwide ENIGMA Study', in BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, Vol. 89, pp. S182 - S182, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000645683800438&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Conference Abstracts | 2021
    2021, 'Distinct Electrophysiological Markers of Mental Wellbeing and Mental Illness Symptoms in 422 Healthy Adults', in BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, Vol. 89, pp. S163 - S164, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.02.419
    Conference Abstracts | 2020
    2020, 'Neuroanatomical Correlates of Psychotic-Like Experiences Assessed in 2,695 Individuals via the ENIGMA Consortium', in BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NY, New York, Vol. 87, pp. S313 - S314, presented at 75th Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting of the Society-of-Biological-Psychiatry (SOBP), NY, New York, 30 April 2020 - 02 May 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.02.807
    Conference Abstracts | 2020
    2020, 'THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FRONTAL CORTICAL VOLUME AND STRIATAL DOPAMINE SYNTHESIS CAPACITY IN PSYCHOSIS', in SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN, OXFORD UNIV PRESS, ITALY, Florence, Vol. 46, pp. S292 - S293, presented at Congress of the Schizophrenia-International-Research-Society (SRIS), ITALY, Florence, 04 April 2020 - 08 April 2020, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000537751800666&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Conference Abstracts | 2019
    2019, 'RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCHIZOTYPY AND SUBCORTICAL BRAIN VOLUMES IN 1084 INDIVIDUALS VIA THE ENIGMA CONSORTIUM', in SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN, OXFORD UNIV PRESS, FL, Orlando, Vol. 45, pp. S196 - S197, presented at Congress of the Schizophrenia-International-Research-Society (SRIS), FL, Orlando, 10 April 2019 - 14 April 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbz021.264

2019-2020 SWSLHD Clinical Knowledge Exchange Seed Funding Initiative 

2020 Instagram Wellbeing Research Award 

2019 Twins Registry Australia Travel Grant

2017 FWO Travel Grant, Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), Belgium

2014 MRI Pilot Study Fund, Centre for Advanced MRI, The University of Auckland, New Zealand 

2011, 2012 AWCBR (Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research) Travel Grants

My main research interests lie at the intersection of cognitive, clinical, and personality research domains using neuroimaging methods (structural and functional MRI). More specifically, I am interested in examining brain-behaviour relationships that underpin resilience to mental disorders, and the influence of behavioural and personality variables that may modulate such relationships. These may include cognitive and emotional factors, such as executive functioning and facial emotion processing, and personality factors, such as schizotypal personality.

My Research Supervision

PhD: Arthur Montalto (2019 - ongoing)

Honours: Wenny Qu (2021), Malithi Silva (2021), Nitharsaa Ambalavanar (2022)