Alvaro Barrera
FRCPsych, MSc, PhD (Cantab)
Consultant Psychiatrist, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
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, as well as with the Oxford Department of Biomedical Engineering, on digital solutions for clinical needs. 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 OUP.
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 and clinical psychiatry, having recently organized the 'Empathy and Clinical Psychiatry Symposium' at Oxford.
Recent publications
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Hebephrenia is dead, long live hebephrenia, or why Hecker and Chaslin were on to something
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Barrera A. et al, (2019), BJPsych Advances, 25, 373 - 376
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Consent to discuss participation in research: a pilot study.
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Walker S. et al, (2019), Evid Based Ment Health
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Clozapine-induced pericarditis: an ethical dilemma.
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Johal HK. and Barrera A., (2019), BMJ Case Rep, 12
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Adapted CBT to Stabilize Sleep on Psychiatric Wards: a Transdiagnostic Treatment Approach.
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Sheaves B. et al, (2018), Behav Cogn Psychother, 46, 661 - 675
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Stabilising sleep for patients admitted at acute crisis to a psychiatric hospital (OWLS): an assessor-blind pilot randomised controlled trial.
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Sheaves B. et al, (2018), Psychol Med, 48, 1694 - 1704
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A narrative review of the success of intramuscular gluteal injections and its impact in psychiatry.
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Soliman E. et al, (2018), Biodes Manuf, 1, 161 - 170
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A web-based clinical decision tool to support treatment decision-making in psychiatry: a pilot focus group study with clinicians, patients and carers.
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Henshall C. et al, (2017), BMC Psychiatry, 17