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Barrera, Alvaro

Title: Consultant Psychiatrist

Department: Inpatient Ward

Location: Warneford Hospital

Email: alvaro.barrera@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk

Research Interests: Transforming inpatient mental health care using digital and organizational approaches

Author's Works

  • The Oxford Textbook of Inpatient Psychiatry, Oxford University Press, 2019-05-01
  • A narrative review of ablative neurosurgery in refractory mental disorders, 2022-07-01
  • Clozapine-induced pericarditis: an ethical dilemma, 2019-06-01
  • Hebephrenia is dead, long live hebephrenia, or why Hecker and Chaslin were on to something, 2019-05-03
  • A retrospective examination of care pathways in individuals with treatment-resistant depression, 2021-05-01
  • Introducing artificial intelligence in acute psychiatric inpatient care: qualitative study of its use to conduct nursing observations., 2020-02-01
  • A narrative review of the success of intramuscular gluteal injections and its impact in psychiatry, 2018-07-01
  • A Phenomenological Exploration of the Voices Reported by Borderline Personality and Schizophrenia Patients, 2021-06-01
  • Adapted CBT to Stabilize Sleep on Psychiatric Wards: a Transdiagnostic Treatment Approach, 2018-04-04
  • Consent to discuss participation in research: a pilot study, 2019-09-01
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Alvaro Barrera is a consultant psychiatrist at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Oxford University, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He completed his PhD at Cambridge and trained in neuropsychiatry at the Addenbrooke’s Hospital. His research focuses on transforming inpatient mental health care using digital and organizational approaches. He is working on introducing optical sensors in acute psychiatric wards to improve care. He was the PI of the first pilot RCT of CBT for insomnia on an acute inpatient ward and edited the recently published Oxford Textbook of Inpatient Psychiatry, with Oxford University Press.

Alvaro is interested in the psychopathology and cognitive neuroscience of severe mental health disorders, including formal thought disorder, disorganization, auditory hallucinations, and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. He is actively involved in the teaching of medical students as well as the training of foundation doctors and core and advanced psychiatry trainees. He is also undertaking work on empathy in clinical psychiatry, having organized the ‘Empathy and Clinical Psychiatry Symposium’ at Oxford.


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