Contact information
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
- Senior 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.
Websites
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Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery
Research centre
Key publications
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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
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The effect of sleep restriction therapy for insomnia on sleep pressure and arousal: a randomised controlled mechanistic trial.
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Maurer LF. et al, (2021), Sleep
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Amygdala responses to negative faces are not associated with depressive symptoms: cross-sectional data from 28,638 individuals in the UK Biobank cohort
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Tamm S. et al, (2022), American Journal of Psychiatry
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Isolating the role of time in bed restriction in the treatment of insomnia: a randomized, controlled, dismantling trial comparing sleep restriction therapy with time in bed regularization.
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Maurer LF. et al, (2020), Sleep, 43
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The effects of digital cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia on cognitive function: A randomised, controlled trial
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KYLE SD., (2020), Sleep
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Biological and clinical insights from genetics of insomnia symptoms.
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Lane JM. et al, (2019), Nat Genet, 51, 387 - 393
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The effect of sleep continuity disruption on multimodal emotion processing and regulation: a laboratory-based, randomized, controlled experiment in good sleepers.
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Reid M. et al, (2022), Journal of Sleep Research
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The acute effects of sleep restriction therapy for insomnia on circadian timing and vigilance
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MAURER L. et al, (2020), Journal of Sleep Research
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Associations Between Sleep Health and Amygdala Reactivity to Negative Facial Expressions in the UK Biobank Cohort (N = 25,758)
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Schiel J. et al, (2022), Biological Psychiatry
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Associations between insomnia symptoms and functional connectivity in the UK Biobank cohort (n = 29,423).
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Holub F. et al, (2023), J Sleep Res, 32
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A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of online cognitive behavioral therapy for chronic insomnia disorder delivered via an automated media-rich web application.
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Espie CA. et al, (2012), Sleep, 35, 769 - 781
Recent publications
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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
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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
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A systematic review of the performance of actigraphy in measuring sleep stages
Preprint
Yuan H. et al, (2023)