Connor Haggarty

Postdoctoral Research Fellow. My research focuses on social and affective neuroscience currently, I am engaged in a clinical trial looking at the endocannabinoid system and its role as a treatment for PTSD.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

I am a social neuroscientist interested in the role of affect in brain and behaviour.

Using a variety of techniques including neuroimaging (particularly EEG), psyhophysiology (facial EMG, GSR, HR) and behavioural measures I have spent the last few years researching the role of affective touch on sociability in clinical and typically developing populations. I completed by PhD in the SomAffect Lab Group (www.somaffect.org) at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, then completing an 18-month role there as a lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience.

I am now undertaking research into the endocannabinoid system (ECN) and the role this plays in PTSD. Colleagues showed that FAAH inhibition (which increases the concentration of endocannabinoids in the ECN) facilitated fear extinction, it is our aim to determine how this mechanism affects individuals with PTSD.

PublicationsShow/Hide content

Funda Akkus, Sylvia Terbeck, Connor J. Haggarty, Valerie Treyer, Janan Janine Dietrich, Stefanie Hornschuh and Gregor Hasler (2020) The role of the metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 in nicotine addiction – Cambridge University Press. Continue to DOI

Connor J. Haggarty, Peter Malinowski, Francis P. McGlone, Susannah C. Walker (2019) Autistic traits modulate cortical responses to affective but not discriminative touch – European Journal of Neuroscience. Continue to DOI

ResearchShow/Hide content

I am a member of The Mayo Lab

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The Mayo Lab

We explore how humans perceive and react to stressful or emotional stimuli in order to better understand how these processes go awry in psychiatric diseases such as post-traumatic stress disorder.

EducationShow/Hide content

B.Sc Psychology with Neuropsychology, University of Wales, Bangor, UK
M.Sc Cognitive Neuroscience, Aston University, UK
Ph.D Cognitive Neuroscience, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

OrganisationShow/Hide content

Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience

Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience (CSAN) integrates knowledge and methodology from different areas of basic and clinical neuroscience.

Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences

What characterizes the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV) is the wide breadth of research and education. BKV is one of the largest departments at LiU with affiliation mainly to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

CoworkersShow/Hide content

Markus Heilig

Professor

Leah Mayo

Research Fellow