Pain
Our pain research currently falls into four areas; nociceptive processing mechanisms that lead to acute and chronic pain, analyses of analgesic drug efficacy, pain in babies and the developing CNS and factors pre-operatively that predict the development of persistent pain states post-operatively.
Read more ›
Anaesthesia
We are aiming to develop better biomarkers of brain ‘responsiveness’ for translation to anaesthetic practice and intensive care.
Read more ›
Intensive Care
We have a long tradition of designing and running multicentre studies to test new treatments in critically ill patients.
Read more ›
Simulation
Our Oxford Simulation, Teaching and Research (OxSTaR) Centre is a purpose built education centre located at the John Radcliffe Hospital. The overarching aim of the Centre is to improve patient safety through excellence in training.
Read more ›
Respiration
Our research includes cellular, systems and modelling approaches to the investigation of respiratory disorders in anaesthesia, pain and intensive care.
Read more ›
Teaching
Our Oxford University Simulation, Teaching & Research Centre (OxSTaR) provides state-of-the-art training for Foundation Year 1 and 2 doctors, final year medical students and other health care practitioners.
Read more ›
Welcome
Welcome to the Nuffield Division of Anaesthetics. We operate as closely associated University and Hospital divisions providing the framework for teaching, research and anaesthetic services. We have rightly positioning ourselves within clinical neurosciences, expanding our research aims by maintaining and developing internationally competitive research programs in pain and consciousness, respiration and hypoxia, intensive care, simulation and human factors training.
Latest news
-
NDCN Awarded Athena Swan Bronze Award 3 May 2013
- More news ›
Latest publications
- Amygdala activity contributes to the dissociative effect of cannabis on pain perception Pain 154 (2013)
- Neuro-genetics of persistent pain Curr Opin Neurobiol 23 (2013)
- Cold or calculating? Reduced activity in the subgenual cingulate cortex reflects decreased emotional aversion to harming in counterintuitive utilitarian judgment Cognition 126 (2013)
- The importance of context: When relative relief renders pain pleasant Pain 154 (2013)
- More publications ›
- Founded in 1937
- First academic department for British anaesthesia
- Internationally recognised teaching programmes
Study with us
We offer unrivalled training opportunities for graduate students.
Find out more