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Nicole Tang
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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/
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🌱 Great energy at today’s Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Group meeting! Huge thanks to our brilliant speakers @sabrinatwilhaar.bsky.social & @adamjowett.bsky.social for their presentations, & to our students who led the discussion. Looking forward to the next one! 💬🧠
#HealthAndWellbeing #Lifespan
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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🧪Rational decision-making moderated the association between night awakenings & attempted suicide. The buffering effect of rational decision making was only evident when reported frequency of night awakenings was low, highlighting sleep as a preventative target for suicide attempts. #SleepPeeps (2/2)
Figure 1 Associations between self-reported frequency of night awakenings at 14 years and the mean predicted probability of reporting an attempted suicide at 17 years at low (lowest 50 per cent of scores) and high (highest 50 per cent of scores) levels of rational decision-making. The blue line represents the 50 per cent of participants with the lowest rational decision-making scores and the red line reflects the remaining 50 per cent of participants with the highest rational decision-making scores. For both rational decision-making groups, an increase in night awakenings corresponds with an increased probability of reporting a suicide attempt. At low levels of night awakenings, those with high levels of rational decision-making have a slightly lower risk of subsequent reported suicide attempt compared to participants with low levels of rational decision-making. As the frequency of night awakenings increases, high and low levels of rational decision-making demonstrate similar risk for reporting a suicide attempt.
October 23, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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🧪 New analysis led by @michaelapawley.bsky.social @warwickpsych.bsky.social shows suicide attempt history at 17 years was associated with more frequent night awakenings and shorter total time in bed on school days at 14 years. Open Access: doi.org/10.1093/slee... #Sleep #academicsky (1/2)
Graphical abstract
October 23, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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🚨 New Resource Alert! 🚨🧪
We just launched a resource page packed with useful information about the Pain Self Perception Scale for pain researchers and clinicians. Access is free for non-commercial projects/activities. Check it out here 👉 warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psyc...
June 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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🎉Live update!! Just announced:
@laurenwilkinson.bsky.social is the winner of the best poster presentation prize 🏆
June 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Very proud of our PhD student @laurenwilkinson.bsky.social who delivered her Best Abstract Prize presentation at the British Pain Society meeting with confidence, clarity and empathy. Well done! 👏 @warwickpsych.bsky.social #BPS2025AGM
June 4, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Well done to Peter To, @katiecunneen.bsky.social, and @michaelapawley.bsky.social for their presentations at the @warwickpsych.bsky.social PGR day. Impressed by the improvements they have shown in a short space of time!
May 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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A buzzing Lifespan Health & Wellbeing Group termly meeting today! 🍕🎉👏 Huge thanks to our brilliant speakers for sharing exciting updates on their projects - inspiring research all around. #Wellbeing #AcademicLife
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Warwick Lifespan Health & Wellbeing Group Term 3 meeting Professor Robin Goodwin presenting Project CONTAIN Drs Katy Stoke (left) and Marina Mendoça Katie Cuneen presenting her doctoral project.
May 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Midlands Sleep Group annual conference today! Great talks, including ECR presentations by our very own @thomasbilterys.bsky.social & Peter To, highlighting the sleep-pain link and sleep being a worthy treatment target 🎯 🧪
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Midlands Sleep Group conference programme Thomas Bilterys presenting Peter To presenting
May 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Such a nice surprise to find that one of my papers is among the most-viewed in Journal of Sleep Research! Not a bad way to start the week 🙌 @warwickpsych.bsky.social #TopViewedArticle

🧪The paper is open access:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Top Viewed Article Badge, Wiley Front page of the paper "Cognitive factors and processes in models of insomnia: A systematic review"
April 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Cherry blossoms just outside our lab in full bloom 🌸 - most beautiful time of the year!
Cherry blossoms outside of our lab
April 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Health Spotlight Seminar - sign up before spaces are gone! warwick.ac.uk/research/spo...
🗓️ 2nd April 2025 (Wed)
⏰ 2:30-3:30pm (refreshment at 2:15)
📍 Warwick Medical School GLT2
@warwickmed.bsky.social @warwickpsych.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
Health Spotlight Seminar details
March 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Shift work is so common, but how does it affect sleep, performance & health?
Dr Amber Tout gave our PS362 Sleep & Health students a fantastic guest lecture on this topic, based on our #Sleepshifters research at Warwick @warwickpsych.bsky.social
Dr Amber Tout with PS362 Sleep and Health students
March 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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🎓 4 PhD Fellowships at Warwick Psychology for 25/26 entry
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI727/p...

-1 open to applicants with their own choice of supervisor/
proposal.

If you're interested in sleep and pain research, get in touch. 🧪
Closing date: 16 March 2025 at 23:59
February 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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🎓 4 PhD Fellowships at Warwick Psychology for 25/26 entry
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI727/p...

-3 for exciting projects led by Drs Alex Clarke,
@gambichiara.bsky.social & @mmrobinson93.bsky.social

-1 open to applicants with their own choice of supervisor/
proposal.

Closing date: 16 March 2025 at 23:59
January 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Symptoms of depression didn’t explain everything, instead they amplified the mental defeat-->suicide risk link.

Implication: Mental defeat may be a worthy new treatment target for those struggling to cope with chronic pain.
As mental defeat increased the risk of suicide increased, which was significantly moderated by depression.
January 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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New paper - brilliantly led by @jennalgillett.bsky.social and Arman Rakhimov - validating the use of the Self-Compassion Scale Short-Form (SCS-SF)in chronic pain and exploring its initial relationships with pain outcomes. 🧪Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
January 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Thanks to our colleagues in Korea (led by Prof Seockhoon Chung), we now also know that PBAS mediates the association between pain and insomnia. Using the Korean PBAS, they found the concept useful in explaining the pain-insomnia link in Asian countries/cultures.

🧪Paper: doi.org/10.1080/1540...
Pain severity was directly associated with insomnia severity; and PBAS, DBAS-16, and MCQI-6 at least partially mediated the association between pain severity and insomnia severity. Insomnia severity was directly associated with pain severity, and only the PBAS mediated this association.
January 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Our interview with Pain Concern's Paul Evans is out.

🔗Listen here: ow.ly/mrbY50UiFup

This episode of Airing Pain focuses on person-centred care. Jenna Gillett and I gave an update on our research on mental defeat and our WITHIN study.

Thanks for the great work you do, Paul!
December 5, 2024 at 12:20 PM
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Warm congratulations to Jenna Gillett, who passed her PhD viva this afternoon! Many thanks to Frankie Maratos, Gemma Gray, and @mgummerum.bsky.social for being such amazing examiners. 🥂 🎉
November 28, 2024 at 3:23 PM