Research groups
Melanie Fleming
Guarantors of Brain Research Fellow & Patient and Public Involvement Lead
I am a research fellow in the Plasticity Group. My primary interest is in the investigation of potential strategies for improving rehabilitation after stroke and brain injury. I co-lead a group investigating the role of sleep in learning and recovery, findings ways to improve sleep after stroke and novel treatments such as brain stimulation.
Chair, Patient and Public Involvement working group, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging
Committee member, Early career training programme, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging
Committee member, Medical Sciences Interdivisional Research Ethics Committee
Peer mentor, Oxford Policy Engagement Network
My collaborators include
- Dr Anton Pick and Dr David Henderson Slater from the Oxford Centre for Enablement (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust)
- Mrs Emma Garratt from the Oxfordshire Stroke Rehabilitation Unit (Oxford Health NHS Trust)
- Professor Helen Dawes from Exeter University
- Mrs Rachel Buckingham and Mr Tim Theologis from the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust)
- Professor Nele Demeyere, Translational Neuropsychology Lab
- Professor Charlotte Stagg, Physiological Neuroimaging Group
Summaries of our studies of sleep after stroke and brain injury
Read a summary of our study examining sleep in chronic stroke survivors
Read a summary of our study assessing sleep during rehabilitation from brain injury
Recent publications
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Improving sleep after stroke: A randomised controlled trial of digital cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia
Journal article
Fleming MK. et al, (2023), Journal of Sleep Research
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The effect of pulse shape in theta-burst stimulation: Monophasic vs biphasic TMS
Journal article
Wendt K. et al, (2023), Brain Stimulation, 16, 1178 - 1185
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Improving sleep and learning in rehabilitation after stroke, part 2 (INSPIRES2): study protocol for a home-based randomised control trial of digital cognitive behavioural therapy (dCBT) for insomnia
Journal article
Weightman M. et al, (2023), BMJ Open, 13, e071764 - e071764
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The effect of pulse shape in theta-burst stimulation: monophasic vs biphasic TBS
Preprint
Wendt K. et al, (2023)
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Improving sleep after stroke: a randomised controlled trial of digital cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia
Preprint
Fleming MK. et al, (2023)