Dr Ullrich Bartsch
About
Biography
I am a Lecturer in Sleep and Neurodegeneration at the University of Surrey.
My research interests are focused on how sleep changes in psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders.
I employ standard polysomnography, high-density EEG and large cohort datasets to link sleep to symptom dimensions and disease severity in various human populations.
My background is in animal electrophysiology where I worked on delineating neurophysiological signatures of sleep in rodent models relevant to schizophrenia, Alzheimer's Disease and other disorders.
Areas of specialism
University roles and responsibilities
- Module Lead for 2nd year Biological Sciences and Biochemistry BSC BMS2048 - Neuroscience from Neurones to Behaviour
ResearchResearch interests
Research projects
Sleep in 22q11.2 deletion syndromeIn a long-standing collaboration with Marianne van den Bree University of Cardiff, we quantified sleep phenotypes in young people with 22q.11.2 deletion syndrome - a copy number variation that increases the risk of being diagnosed schizophrenia by up 30%.
Research interests
Research projects
In a long-standing collaboration with Marianne van den Bree University of Cardiff, we quantified sleep phenotypes in young people with 22q.11.2 deletion syndrome - a copy number variation that increases the risk of being diagnosed schizophrenia by up 30%.
Publications
Highlights
Bartsch, U., Simpkin, A. J., Demanuele, C., Wamsley, E., Marston, H. M., & Jones, M. W. (2019). Distributed slow-wave dynamics during sleep predict memory consolidation and its impairment in schizophrenia. Npj Schizophrenia, 5(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41537-019-0086-8
Demanuele, C., Bartsch, U., Baran, B., Khan, S., Vangel, M. G., Cox, R., Hämäläinen, M., Jones, M. W., Stickgold, R., & Manoach, D. S. (2017). Coordination of Slow Waves With Sleep Spindles Predicts Sleep-Dependent Memory Consolidation in Schizophrenia. Sleep, 40(1), zsw013. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsw013
Gardner, R. J., Kersanté, F., Jones, M. W., & Bartsch, U. (2014). Neural oscillations during non-rapid eye movement sleep as biomarkers of circuit dysfunction in schizophrenia. European Journal of Neuroscience, 39(7), 1091–1106. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.12533
Phillips, K. G.*, Bartsch, U.*, McCarthy, A. P., Edgar, D. M., Tricklebank, M. D., Wafford, K. A., & Jones, M. W. (2012). Decoupling of sleep-dependent cortical and hippocampal interactions in a neurodevelopmental model of schizophrenia. Neuron, 76(3), 526–533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2012.09.016 (* Equally contributed)