Dr Nayantara Santhi

Associate Professor

Department: Psychology

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Key Publications

Temperature as a circadian timing cue in the visually impaired, Ball, D., Mann, S., Santhi, N., Speekenbrink, M., Walsh, V. 16 Jun 2025, Blindness and Visual Impairments, Amsterdam, Elsevier
The structure of sleep and how it may be altered by visual impairments, Ball, D., Abud-Henando, S., Mann, S., Santhi, N., Speekenbrink, M., Walsh, V. 16 Jun 2025, Blindness and Visual Impairments, Amsterdam, Elsevier
An online behavioral self-help intervention rapidly improves acute insomnia severity and subjective mood during the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic: a stratified randomized controlled trial, Elder, G., Santhi, N., Robson, A., Alfonso-Miller, P., Spiegelhalder, K., Ellis, J. 1 Jun 2024, In: Sleep
Author Correction: Effect of 60 days of head down tilt bed rest on amplitude and phase of rhythms in physiology and sleep in men, Bonmatí-Carrión, M., Santhi, N., Atzori, G., Mendis, J., Kaduk, S., Dijk, D., Archer, S. 23 Apr 2024, In: npj Microgravity
Effect of 60 days of head down tilt bed rest on amplitude and phase of rhythms in physiology and sleep in men, Bonmatí-Carrión, M., Santhi, N., Atzori, G., Mendis, J., Kaduk, S., Dijk, D., Archer, S. 29 Mar 2024, In: npj Microgravity
Investigating light sensitivity in bipolar disorder (HELIOS-BD), Roguski, A., Needham, N., MacGillivray, T., Martinovic, J., Dhillon, B., Riha, R., Armstrong, L., Campbell, I., Ferguson, A., Hilgen, G., Lako, M., Ritter, P., Santhi, N., von Schantz, M., Spitschan, M., Smith, D. 6 May 2024, In: Wellcome Open Research
Metadata recommendations for light logging and dosimetry datasets, Spitschan, M., Hammad, G., Blume, C., Schmidt, C., Skene, D., Wulff, K., Santhi, N., Zauner, J., Münch, M. 28 Aug 2024, In: BMC Digital Health
Nutritional interventions in treating menopause-related sleep disturbances: a systematic review, Polasek, D., Santhi, N., Alfonso-Miller, P., Walshe, I., Haskell-Ramsay, C., Elder, G. 1 Aug 2024, In: Nutrition Reviews
0053 Circadian Regulation in the Social Brain: How Sleep Deprivation Compromises Empathy, Turnbull, M., Malby, C., Jensen, E., Sharif, F., Donninger, J., Goodall, S., Ansdell, P., Santhi, N. May 2023, In: Sleep
Contrasting Effects of Sleep Restriction, Total Sleep Deprivation, and Sleep Timing on Positive and Negative Affect, Groeger, J., Lo, J., Santhi, N., Lazar, A., Dijk, D. 17 Aug 2022, In: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

PGR Supervision

Emily Jensen Managing Sleep to Enhance Mental Wellbeing and Cognition in Parkinson’s Disease Start Date: 01/10/2022
Mark Turnbull Circadian disruption and its effects on emotional face perception Start Date: 01/10/2021

Qualifications

Psychology PhD August 31 2000

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