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Dr Nicholas Meyer

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Location:

  • Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

GMC/GDC number:

6160376

Professional background

I am a Psychiatrist specialising in Behavioural Sleep Medicine. I studied medicine at the University of Oxford, and went on to train in Psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, where I became interested in the role played by sleep and circadian disturbances in mental disorders. I completed a PhD, funded by at MRC clinical research training fellowship, at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, using mobile and wearable technologies to investigate the interaction between sleep disturbances and relapse in psychosis.

Specialties

Research interests

  • Sleep timing (circadian rhythm sleep-wake) disorders.
  • Sleep and circadian problems in mental illness.
  • Sleep in people living with psychosis.
  • Use of digital technologies, including mobile and wearable devices, for studying sleep-wake cycles.

Publications

N. Meyer, R. Lok et al., The sleep-circadian interface: A window into mental disorders. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in press (2024)

S. Speerforck, V. Jürgensen, M. Göbel, N. Meyer, G. Schomerus, 'Concept creep' in perceptions of mental illness - an experimental examination of prevalence-induced concept change. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 10.1007/s00406-023-01737-0 (2024).

F. Matcham et al., Wearable-derived sleep features predict relapse in Major Depressive Disorder.  Submitted for publication (2024).

G. Gillett et al., Temporal relationships between latent symptoms in psychosis: a longitudinal experience sampling methodology study. European Psychiatry 66, S112-S113 (2023).

J. Bagautdinova et al., Sleep abnormalities in different clinical stages of psychosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA psychiatry  (2023).

N. Meyer, M. Jones (2022) Sleep, circadian rhythms and mental health: advances, gaps, challenges and opportunities. Wellcome Trust Report.

N. Meyer, A. G. Harvey, S. Lockley, D.-J. Dijk, Circadian rhythms and disorders of the timing of sleep. The Lancet  (2022).

A. C. Skeldon, D.-J. Dijk, N. Meyer, K. Wulff, Extracting Circadian and Sleep Parameters from Longitudinal Data in Schizophrenia for the Design of Pragmatic Light Interventions. Schizophrenia Bulletin  (2021).

A. Perkins et al., Cholinergic modulation of disorder-relevant human defensive behaviour in generalised anxiety disorder. Translational Psychiatry 11, 13 (2021).

N. Meyer et al., The Temporal Dynamics of Sleep Disturbance and Psychopathology in Psychosis: A Digital Sampling Study. Psychological medicine, pp 1-10 (2021).

D. W. Joyce, N. Meyer, Refining the Analysis of Multidimensional Psychometric Data: A Geometric Distance Approach. medRxiv  (2021).

T. Wise et al., Cholinergic modulation of disorder-relevant neural circuits in generalized anxiety disorder. Biological Psychiatry 87, 908-915 (2020).

A. Schmidt et al., Acute oxytocin effects in inferring others’ beliefs and social emotions in people at clinical high risk for psychosis. Translational psychiatry 10, 203 (2020).

U. Provenzani et al., What are we targeting when we treat autism spectrum disorder? A systematic review of 406 clinical trials. Autism 24, 274-284 (2020).

N. Meyer, H. Selsick, K. Lee, Obstructive Sleep Apnoea. The Maudsley Practice Guidelines for Physical Health Conditions in Psychiatry, 413 (2020).

N. Meyer et al., Sleep and circadian rhythm disturbance in remitted schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Schizophrenia bulletin 46, 1126-1143 (2020).

S. M. Faulkner, P. E. Bee, N. Meyer, D.-J. Dijk, R. J. Drake, Light therapies to improve sleep in intrinsic circadian rhythm sleep disorders and neuro-psychiatric illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Sleep medicine reviews 46, 108-123 (2019).

N. Meyer et al., Capturing rest-activity profiles in schizophrenia using wearable and mobile technologies: development, implementation, feasibility, and acceptability of a remote monitoring platform. JMIR mHealth and uHealth 6, e8292 (2018).

N. Meyer et al. (2018) Capturing rest-activity profiles in schizophrenia using wearable and mobile technologies: development, implementation, feasibility, and acceptability of a remote monitoring platform. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2018 Oct 30; 6 (10): e188. doi: 10.2196/mhealth. 8292.

B. Biagianti, D. Hidalgo-Mazzei, N. Meyer, Developing digital interventions for people living with serious mental illness: perspectives from three mHealth studies. Evidence-based mental health 20, 98 (2017).

N. Meyer et al., Optimizing outcomes in clozapine rechallenge following neutropenia: a cohort analysis. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 76, 13499 (2015).

N. Meyer, M. Voysey, J. Holmes, D. Casey, K. Hawton, Self‐harm in people with epilepsy: A retrospective cohort study. Epilepsia 55, 1355-1365 (2014).

M. Brandizzi et al., Self-reported attenuated psychotic-like experiences in help-seeking adolescents and their association with age, functioning and psychopathology. Schizophrenia research 160, 110-117 (2014)