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 the University of Oxford, and Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge and trained in neuropsychiatry at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. His research focuses on improving inpatient mental health 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.
Alvaro is interested in the psychopathology and cognitive neuroscience of severe mental health disorders, including formal thought disorder, disorganization, auditory hallucinations, delusions, and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. He is involved in teaching medical students as well as training foundation doctors and core and advanced psychiatry trainees.
Recent publications
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A retrospective examination of care pathways in individuals with treatment-resistant depression.
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Day E. et al, (2021), BJPsych Open, 7
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A Phenomenological Exploration of the Voices Reported by Borderline Personality and Schizophrenia Patients.
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Barrera A. et al, (2021), Psychopathology, 1 - 9
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Psychotic disorders in young adults with perinatally acquired HIV: a UK case series.
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Mallik I. et al, (2020), Psychol Med, 1 - 7
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Consent to discuss participation in research: a pilot study.
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Walker S. et al, (2020), Evid Based Ment Health, 23, 77 - 82
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Introducing artificial intelligence in acute psychiatric inpatient care: qualitative study of its use to conduct nursing observations.
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Barrera A. et al, (2020), Evid Based Ment Health, 23, 34 - 38
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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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Clozapine-induced pericarditis: an ethical dilemma.
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Johal HK. and Barrera A., (2019), BMJ Case Rep, 12