Dr Michael Ambler
FFICM, MA, MBBS, MRCP, PhD
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Current positions
Consultant Senior Lecturer
School of Psychology and Neuroscience
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Research interests
I am interested in the function and dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system during critical illness and how we might modulate this in order to improve outcomes. I study torpor as a model of centrally driven physiological resilience, and am interested in whether inducing synthetic torpor-like states might be protective in models of critical illness.
Publications
Recent publications
20/01/2026Exploring the Requirements of Clinicians for Transparent and Trustworthy Decision Support Systems in Intensive Care: Semistructured Interview Study (Preprint)
Clocks slide rather than freeze during torpor in the mouse
iScience
Estrous cycle modulates fasting-induced torpor propensity via hypothalamic estrogen signalling
Scientific Reports
Meal timing entrains circadian rhythms in the dorsal vagal complex, a brainstem satiety centre
PLOS Biology
Synthetic torpor in the rat protects the heart from ischaemia-reperfusion injury
Synthetic torpor in the rat protects the heart from ischaemia-reperfusion injury
Thesis
Life on hold
Supervisors
Award date
23/03/2021
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