Kate Saunders

DPhil MRCPsych FHEA

Associate Professor

Director of Medical Studies
Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist
Oxford Postgraduate Psychiatry Course Organiser
Academic Training Programme Director

Mood instability, Borderline personality disorder, Bipolar disorder, medical education

The focus of my current research work is digital phenotyping, sleep and circadian rhythm, and student mental health. Digital phenotyping has the potential to provide significant insights into psychiatric disorder as well as enhance clinical care and self-management. Alongside colleagues in the Department of Maths and the Alan Turing Institute we are developing mathematical tools to better quantify the data such approaches generate and crucially to ensure that it has clinical relevance.

Key publications

The Emerging Circadian Phenotype of Borderline Personality Disorder: Mechanisms, Opportunities and Future Directions
Journal article

McGowan NM. and Saunders KEA., (2021), Current Psychiatry Reports, 23
Circadian rest-activity patterns in bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder.
Journal article

McGowan NM. et al, (2019), Transl Psychiatry, 9
Evidence-based guidelines for treating bipolar disorder: Revised third edition recommendations from the British Association for Psychopharmacology.
Journal article

Goodwin GM. et al, (2016), J Psychopharmacol, 30, 495 - 553
Variability in phase and amplitude of diurnal rhythms is related to variation of mood in bipolar and borderline personality disorder
Journal article

Carr O. et al, Scientific Reports
Mental health care for university students: a way forward?
Journal article

Duffy A. et al, (2019), Lancet Psychiatry, 6, 885 - 887

Recent publications

A service evaluation of short-term mentalisation based treatment for personality disorder.
Journal article

McGowan NM. et al, (2021), BJPsych Open, 7
The Emerging Circadian Phenotype of Borderline Personality Disorder: Mechanisms, Opportunities and Future Directions
Journal article

McGowan NM. and Saunders KEA., (2021), Current Psychiatry Reports, 23
Effect of lithium on circadian rhythm in bipolar disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Journal article

Xu N. et al, (2021), Bipolar Disord
Modelling Paralinguistic Properties in Conversational Speech to Detect Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder
Conference paper

WANG BO. et al, (2021)
Blood pressure in bipolar disorder: evidence of elevated pulse pressure and associations between mean pressure and mood instability.
Journal article

McGowan NM. et al, (2021), Int J Bipolar Disord, 9
Insomnia as a mediating therapeutic target for depressive symptoms: A sub-analysis of participant data from two large randomized controlled trials of a digital sleep intervention.
Journal article

Henry AL. et al, (2021), J Sleep Res, 30
Digital Communication Biomarkers of Mood and Diagnosis in Borderline Personality Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, and Healthy Control Populations.
Journal article

Gillett G. et al, (2021), Front Psychiatry, 12
Medium-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection on multiple vital organs, exercise capacity, cognition, quality of life and mental health, post-hospital discharge.
Journal article

Raman B. et al, (2021), EClinicalMedicine, 31
SPICE-19: a 3-Month Prospective Cohort Study of 640 Medical Students and Foundation Doctors
Journal article

Bandyopadhyay S. et al, (2021), Medical Science Educator
The Factors that Influenced Medical Students' Decision to Work Within the NHS During the COVID-19 pandemic- a National, Cross-sectional Study.
Journal article

Georgiou I. et al, (2020), J Occup Environ Med, Publish Ahead of Print

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