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<\/a>Queen Alexander Hospital, where I attended the night-time sleep studies and outpatients sleep clinic.<\/p><\/div>\n
My experiences here so far have been incredibly positive. I\u2019ve met with Dr Cathy Hill who is taking me under her wing to show me the world of clinical sleep disorders in children. I\u2019m attending her clinic and a sleep course she\u2019s giving later in my month\u2019s stay. I am also going to get involved in writing a paper on sleep at high altitude and whether this affects cognitive functioning. I\u2019ve also been working with the sleep technologist at Cathy\u2019s laboratory \u2013 Johanna, who has been wonderful in helping me go through sleep scoring.<\/p>\n
And now I\u2019ve been to the Queen Alexander Hospital\u2019s laboratory, which also sees clinical patients. There I\u2019ve been working with a technologist, who\u2019s actually from my home country, South Africa. We\u2019ve been in the laboratory together doing sleep polysomnographic set-up. I\u2019ve picked up some handy tips and have also been reassured that what I know is indeed useful.\u00a0 Furthermore I\u2019ve started to do some work with Dr Hazel Everit and a number of other collaborators on a Chochrane review of anti-depressant treatment in insomnia.<\/p>\n
The team here at the University of Southampton has been incredibly welcoming and supportive. Professor Baldwin has shown me around and introduced me to many of his colleagues, and facilitated lots of meetings, case presentations and journal and film club meetings, which have been wonderfully stimulating.<\/p>\n
Another big part of my time here is spent with Professor Baldwin seeing clinical psychiatric outpatient cases, which has been extremely valuable. As part of my clinical training back home, I\u2019m seeing patients with brain injury. However, I don\u2019t get to see a lot of psychiatric cases, so this exchange is filling an important clinical gap for me. I\u2019m seeing a variety of cases including individuals who are diagnosed with anxiety and mood disorders. I may also see patients with psychotic disorders as well as observe a session of ECT (electro-convulsive therapy).<\/p>\n
On a personal front I\u2019ve also managed to catch up with some family here \u2013 taking long walks in the British countryside. We even managed to get a good day of whether in \u2013 perfectly sunny skies.<\/p>\n
So far it\u2019s been an exciting time! Looking back at the 10 days I\u2019ve been here I can\u2019t believe how much has happened already and I\u2019m excited for the upcoming 18 days \u2013 its certainly – Gosia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I\u2019m writing this I\u2019m on the train back to Southampton and its almost 1am. The reason I\u2019m coming home so late is not frivolous first year party escapades, rather it\u2019s a late night in the sleep laboratory in Portsmouth. … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/a>going to be busy \u2013 just the way I like it!<\/p>\n
![\n<\/a>going to be busy \u2013 just the way I like it!<\/p>\n– Gosia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As I\u2019m writing this I\u2019m on the train back to Southampton and its almost 1am. The reason I\u2019m coming home so late is not frivolous first year party escapades, rather it\u2019s a late night in the sleep laboratory in Portsmouth. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[63663],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eusarnad-experiences"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cFHM-5O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/eusarnad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/eusarnad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/eusarnad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/eusarnad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/eusarnad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/eusarnad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/eusarnad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/eusarnad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/eusarnad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/eusarnad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/eusarnad\/files\/2014\/01\/UK-with-mama-Lin.jpg\"){kind=link}