Dr Ullrich Bartsch
Academic and research departments
Surrey Sleep Research Centre, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, School of Biosciences.About
Biography
Ullrich Bartsch is a Lecturer at the Surrey Sleep Research Centre at the University of Surrey. He is also a Co-Investigator of the Sleep and Circadian Group (led by Prof Derk-Jan Dijk) as part of the Dementia Research Institute - Care Research and Technology Centre and a Surrey AI Fellow at the Institute for People-Centred AI.
His academic career started when he completed his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at the University of Bochum (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) with a final year project in Biopsychology, focusing on non-linear dynamics of dopamine receptor signalling networks, supervised by Daniel Dusrtewitz and Onur Gunturkun. He joined Daniel Durstewitz at the Centre for Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Plymouth for his PhD project, which focussed on the effects of dopamine on electrophysiology and network dynamics of the prefrontal cortex networks.
He then joined Matt Jones at the University of Bristol as a postdoctoral researcher to employ in vivo electrophysiology to investigate rodent models related to schizophrenia. In 2014, he was awarded a Lilly Innovation Fellowship Award (LIFA), a postdoctoral fellowship sponsored by the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly. His position was shared by Lilly UK and the University of Bristol, where he investigated sleep signatures in human populations with genetic risk for schizophrenia.
Areas of specialism
University roles and responsibilities
- Module Lead for 2nd year module: ,Neuroscience from Neurones to Behaviour, BMS2048
- Module team member: 2nd year module, Integration of Physological Systems, BMS2038
- Module team member: 4th year module, Clinical Pathology, BMSM028
- Academic Integrity Officer
ResearchResearch interests
I am interested in how brain dynamics of sleep change in neuropsychiatric disorders and in developing novel interventions to improve sleep.
My research is focused on electrophysiological signatures of sleep and their role in psychiatric disorders, including dementia. I employ wearable devices, polysomnography, and high-density EEG to quantify electrophysiological signatures of sleep in healthy and patient populations - and advanced analytical approaches and techniques to link sleep to other symptom dimensions. I recently began using electrical brain stimulation techniques to bias brain activity during sleep.
Research interests
I am interested in how brain dynamics of sleep change in neuropsychiatric disorders and in developing novel interventions to improve sleep.
My research is focused on electrophysiological signatures of sleep and their role in psychiatric disorders, including dementia. I employ wearable devices, polysomnography, and high-density EEG to quantify electrophysiological signatures of sleep in healthy and patient populations - and advanced analytical approaches and techniques to link sleep to other symptom dimensions. I recently began using electrical brain stimulation techniques to bias brain activity during sleep.
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)