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Contact information

Email
simon.kyle@ndcn.ox.ac.uk

Simon Kyle

MA (First Class Hons.), PhD

Professor of Experimental and Clinical Sleep Research

Programme Director, The Oxford Online Programme in Sleep Medicine
Co-Director, Experimental and Clinical Sleep Medicine
Honorary Member, Department of Psychiatry
Research Fellow, Somerville College

Sleep, sleep disorders and their treatment

I have specific research interests in the aetiology and management of sleep disturbance and the interaction between sleep disturbance and mental health.

My research is funded by The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme, Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR), Efficacy and Mechanisms Evaluation (EME) Programme and the Wellcome Trust.

Research groups

Experimental and Clinical Sleep Medicine

Websites

Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery
Research centre

Key publications

Clinical and cost-effectiveness of nurse-delivered sleep restriction therapy for insomnia in primary care (HABIT): a pragmatic, superiority, open-label, randomised controlled trial.
Journal article

Kyle SD. et al, (2023), Lancet
Amygdala responses to negative faces are not associated with depressive symptoms: cross-sectional data from 28,638 individuals in the UK Biobank cohort
Journal article

Tamm S. et al, (2022), American Journal of Psychiatry
The effects of digital cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia on cognitive function: a randomized controlled trial.
Journal article

Kyle SD. et al, (2020), Sleep, 43
Biological and clinical insights from genetics of insomnia symptoms.
Journal article

Lane JM. et al, (2019), Nat Genet, 51, 387 - 393
The effect of sleep continuity disruption on multimodal emotion processing and regulation: a laboratory-based, randomised, controlled experiment in good sleepers.
Journal article

Reid MJ. et al, (2022), J Sleep Res
The acute effects of sleep restriction therapy for insomnia on circadian timing and vigilance.
Journal article

Maurer LF. et al, (2020), J Sleep Res
Associations Between Sleep Health and Amygdala Reactivity to Negative Facial Expressions in the UK Biobank Cohort (N = 25,758)
Journal article

Schiel J. et al, (2022), Biological Psychiatry
Associations between insomnia symptoms and functional connectivity in the UK Biobank cohort (n = 29,423).
Journal article

Holub F. et al, (2023), J Sleep Res, 32
A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of online cognitive behavioral therapy for chronic insomnia disorder delivered via an automated media-rich web application.
Journal article

Espie CA. et al, (2012), Sleep, 35, 769 - 781
The effect of sleep restriction therapy for insomnia on REM sleep fragmentation: A secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial
Journal article

MAURER L. et al, (2023), Journal of Sleep Research

Recent publications

Associations between self-reported sleep, overnight memory consolidation, and emotion perception: A large-scale online study in the general population.
Journal article

Sharman R. et al, (2023), J Sleep Res
Cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia: Can we make it work for shift work?
Journal article

KYLE S., (2023), Sleep Medicine Reviews
Clinical and cost-effectiveness of nurse-delivered sleep restriction therapy for insomnia in primary care (HABIT): a pragmatic, superiority, open-label, randomised controlled trial.
Journal article

Kyle SD. et al, (2023), Lancet
Clinical and cost-effectiveness of nurse-delivered sleep restriction therapy for insomnia in primary care (HABIT): a pragmatic, superiority, open-label, randomised controlled trial
Journal article

KYLE S., (2023), The Lancet
Improving sleep after stroke: A randomised controlled trial of digital cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia.
Journal article

Fleming MK. et al, (2023), J Sleep Res
The effect of sleep restriction therapy for insomnia on REM sleep fragmentation: A secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial
Journal article

MAURER L. et al, (2023), Journal of Sleep Research
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
Sleep health dimensions and shift work as longitudinal predictors of cognitive performance in the UK Biobank cohort.
Journal article

Ell J. et al, (2023), Sleep
Associations between insomnia symptoms and functional connectivity in the UK Biobank cohort (n = 29,423).
Journal article

Holub F. et al, (2023), J Sleep Res, 32
Associations between sleep health and grey matter volume in the UK Biobank cohort (n = 33 356).
Journal article

Schiel JE. et al, (2023), Brain Commun, 5

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