Nuffield Division of Anaesthetics
We maintain and develop internationally competitive research programmes in pain and consciousness, respiration and hypoxia, intensive care, simulation and human factors training.
Noise, sleep and delerium in intensive care
The SILENCE project, funded by the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit stream, featured on BBC Radio 4 Inside Health on 4 October 2016.
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Understanding how we perceive the threat of breathlessness
Researchers find that components of a small group of brain cells in the brainstem are important in how people perceive the threat of breathlessness.
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Trainee doctors in our simulation suite
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NDCN publications
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Subthalamic nucleus beta and gamma activity is modulated depending on the level of imagined grip force.
Fischer P. et al, (2017), Exp Neurol, 293, 53 - 61
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Moderate alcohol consumption as a risk factor for adverse brain outcomes and cognitive decline: longitudinal cohort study
Topiwala A. et al, (2017), British Medical Journal
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A preliminary investigation of sleep quality in functional neurological disorders: Poor sleep appears common, and is associated with functional impairment
Graham CD. and Kyle SD., (2017), Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 378, 163 - 166
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