Nicole Tang
@nkytang.bsky.social
Professor of Clinical & Health Psychology at Warwick (@warwickpsych.bsky.social). Researching sleep, insomnia, chronic pain and mental health. ☘️ Warwick Sleep and Pain Lab website: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psych/research/lifespan/sleeplab/
🧪Thrilled to see our paper highlighted by PAIN. Thank you! For many patients, chronic pain is not only about intensity, but also about the feeling that pain is taking over and eroding their sense of self. We hope this work helps inform more person-centred interventions for #chronicpain management.
PAIN@painthejournal.bsky.social · 3w ago@nkytang.bsky.social et al.’s network models reveal how mental defeat dynamically shapes daily pain experiences by increasing attention to pain and perceived impact on routine, relationships, self-identity, and future. Learn more in #PAIN bit.ly/4wdf1kC
Delighted to see such a strong turnout at today’s @warwickpsych.bsky.social Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Group meeting. We enjoyed two excellent talks— John Galvin on self-compassion in autism and Gitit Kadar-Satat on student employability. A great way to spend a warm summer afternoon. ☀️👏
“With a liberal non-inferiority margin, amitriptyline is non-inferior…in reducing insomnia severity. Amitriptyline has more side effects & its effect on insomnia may diminish after tapering. [CBT-I]should remain first-line treatment for patients with medical comorbidity given its broader benefits.”
SLEEP and SLEEP Advances@sleepjournals.bsky.social · 2mo ago#CognitiveBehavioralTherapy (CBT-I) remains the most popular #insomniatreatment. In this clinical trial, researchers explore #amitriptyline as a potential #insomniatreatment for patients with #medicalcomorbidities. academic.oup.com/sleep/articl...
Delighted to be invited to join the Research Exchange! Loved the OBHA & IBME tours and the thoughtful discussions that followed—huge thanks to Tamara, Andreia and @benosaka.bsky.social for organising.
NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Oxford Health@oxhealthbrc.bsky.social · 2mo agoOxford–Surrey Neuroimaging & Sleep Research Exchange brought teams together to share expertise and new ideas recently. From #OPM-MEG and #MRI demos to #CBT-I and patient-led PPIE sessions, collaboration continues to drive future research opportunities. tinyurl.com/SleepOxfordS...
Very well done, Lauren!
Warwick Psychology@warwickpsych.bsky.social · 2mo ago🎉We're thrilled to congratulate Lauren Wilkinson @laurenwilkinson.bsky.social who was awarded the SEM Faculty Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduate Researchers Who Teach - a truly fantastic achievement. Read about it here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... Congratulations Lauren!! 🎉
Brilliant presentations by @raphaelatf.bsky.social & @katiecunneen.bsky.social at the @warwickpsych.bsky.social PGR research day! Seeing that growth in research aptitude and independence is incredibly rewarding! 🧪🤩
Thanks Dr Deborah Talmi @dtalmi.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social for such an interesting talk on Bayesian modelling of subjective pain experiences. Nice to see the integration of basic and clinical science. 🧪
New study maps a U‑shaped link between sleep duration and biological ageing with 6.4–7.8 hours emerging as the sweet spot for longevity. @alice-gregory.bsky.social @jakketamminen.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sleep chart of biological ageing clocks in middle and late life - Nature
A cross-organ, multi-omics U-shaped relationship between sleep duration and biological ageing clocks highlights the potential of sleep optimization to promote healthy ageing, lower disease risk and ex...
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Grateful for the opportunity to talk about our lab's research on mental defeat in chronic pain this morning on BBC Radio 4. An exciting (if slightly nerve‑wracking!) way to wrap up the week.
Mental defeat—negative self‑appraisals like feeling beaten or defined by pain—matters. That feeling that "pain has taken over" can shape daily pain experience and even worsen suffering, our new study published in PAIN suggests. #ChronicPain #PainPsychology 🧪(1/2) journals.lww.com/pain/abstrac...
Temporal dynamics of mental defeat in chronic pain: a... : PAIN
etwork analysis on time series data from an experience sampling study to examine these dynamic within-person relationships in 137 adults (Mage = 41.9, 84.7% female) with chronic noncancer pain, who co...
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Always a joy to attend the British Pain Society conference. This year in the lovely spa town, Harrogate. 3 days packed with exciting talks and conversations of pain science. 🧪 (1/4) #pain #bpsasm2026
Making change with the pain community. Proud to have this @livewellwithpain.bsky.social conference hosted at Warwick. Great video, Emma, Laura and team! www.linkedin.com/posts/emma-d... 🧪 #pain #chronicpain #primarycare #sleep #lifestylemedicine
We had a great day on Friday 27th March, at the Footsteps to Change Conference. With thanks to Charlie Atkinson for his awesome videography and editing skills. We’ll be adding keynote session… | Emm...
We had a great day on Friday 27th March, at the Footsteps to Change Conference. With thanks to Charlie Atkinson for his awesome videography and editing skills. We’ll be adding keynote session record...
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Last Friday’s footsteps to change conference finished my hectic week on a high note. Thanks for inviting me to speak on the importance of sleep, @livewellwithpain.bsky.social It was great to catch up with colleagues who care about pain management in the community!
My department is moving to a new building. Last day in my soon-to-be -old office, taking a good look at the long windowless corridor, defunct letter boxes, 60s spiral stairwell and the Japanese garden.
Now, @robingoodwin.bsky.social is presenting his interdisciplinary UKRI project on interactions in markets between traders and customers, identifying risk factors accelerating the spread of infectious diseases. @warwickpsych.bsky.social
Research Away Day today. From the Lifespan Health & Wellbeing Group, Dieter Wolke is giving a talk about resilience & tradeoffs of biological plasticity and parental investment from projects funded by UKRI and EU. @warwicklng.bsky.social @warwickpsych.bsky.social
Welcome to Professor Glenn Waller, who has joined our department. His work focuses on the processes that underlie and maintain eating disorders, how to treat eating disorders with cognitive-behavioural approaches, and how to translate evidence-based approaches into real-life clinical settings. 1/2
University students’ sleep patterns are full of interesting surprises 😅
SLEEP and SLEEP Advances@sleepjournals.bsky.social · 5mo agoHistory allows us to learn what was considered #healthysleepbehaviors in the past. This article analyzes #sleep culture of #university students across 100 years. academic.oup.com/sleep/articl...
🧪Sharing this job opportunity @warwickpsych.bsky.social, aligned with current research priorities in health and wellbeing (lifespan #resilience, #family relationships, #mentalhealth #neurodiversity, #healthequity, #sleep, #pain, #trauma, #self-harm, #suicide, #technology for healthcare innovations)
Warwick Psychology@warwickpsych.bsky.social · 6mo ago📢 We’re hiring! The University of Warwick is recruiting for a full-time, permanent academic position in Psychology, available at either: 🔹 Assistant Professor 🔹 Associate Professor 📅 Application deadline: 5th April 2026
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A productive and energising afternoon at our termly Lifespan Health & Wellbeing Group meeting. Grateful to our @warwickpsych PGR students for their support, and to Jag Jutley-Nielson & Nick Thompson for sharing insights into the STREAM project and participatory research with the autistic community.
Our next Psychology/Health Spotlight seminar will be given by Dr David Moore from Liverpool John Moores University, who will be talking about Pain in Autism. Date: Tuesday, 10 February 2026 Time: 12:00–13:00 Location: H0.43 All welcome! #Pain #Autism #Neurodiversity #Primary care
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No more jet lag? Scientists discover oral compound that helps 'reset' the body clock forward
A Japanese research team has discovered a new compound that can advance the body's internal clock—offering hope for faster recovery from jet lag and better adaptation to night-shift work. The compound...
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Many congratulations, Dr Pawley! We’re all so proud of you. Way to go!
Michaela Pawley@michaelapawley.bsky.social · 6mo agoVery happy to share that I’ve passed my PhD viva with minor corrections🎉 My PhD explored the longitudinal links between adolescent sleep and later self-harm and suicide risk. Really grateful to my examiners, Prof. Talar Moukhtarian & Prof. Alice Gregory for such a thoughtful and constructive viva!
A paper published in Nature Medicine presents SleepFM: a multimodal sleep foundation model trained on over 585,000 hours of polysomnography data. It can accurately predict 130 health conditions from one night of sleep, including dementia and heart failure. 🧪🩺
A multimodal sleep foundation model for disease prediction - Nature Medicine
A deep learning-based model, developed using the rich, multimodal data available from polysomnography-derived sleep recordings, performs well on common sleep analysis tasks and predicts future disease risk across a range of diseases.
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New Nature Neuroscience paper from the PAINDIFF Network - “Recommendations for the Inclusion and Study of Sex and Gender in Research”. 5 recommendations that can be applied to human and preclinical research, and some specific recommendations for each type. Full paper link rdcu.be/eWJDG