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I have worked with imaging technologies (PET and fMRI, some EEG) since 1990. The major aim has always been to understand what the brain does when someone reports pain. Recently I have turned my attention more directly towards the nature of pain (what is it, exactly? And how does it develop? Does it develop or is it delivered by the stimulus directly? And so forth). We have also begun to generate pain without injury and have provided the neural correlates of these. We have also reduced pain from a given noxious source and are uncovering how the brain automatically inhibits pain. The hope is that by better understanding what pain is and the brain mechanisms that support pain we can provide targeted psychological and pharamaceutical interventions.Selected publications:Osborn J, Derbyshire SWG. Pain sensation evoked by observing injury in others. Pain 2010; 148: 268-274.Derbyshire SWG, Raja A. On the development of painful experience. Journal of Consciousness Studies 2011; 18: 233-256.Dennis NL, Larkin M, Derbyshire SWG. 'A giant mess' - making sense of complexity in the accounts of people with fibromyalgia. British Journal of Health Psychology 2013; 18: 763-781.Derbyshire SWG, Whalley MG, Seah STH, Oakley DA. Highly similar changes in clinical and experimental pain experience following hypnotic and non-hypnotic suggestion have different underlying neural correlates. Psychosomatic Medicine 2017; 79: 189-200.Derbyshire SWG, Long V, Asplund CL. Stepwise increasing sequential offsets cannot be used to deliver high thermal intensities with little or no perception of pain. Journal of Neurophysiology, 2019; 122: 729-736.Derbyshire SWG, Bockmann JC. Reconsidering fetal pain. Journal of Medical Ethics, 2020; 46: 3-6.Specialties: Data analysis (SPM, FSL), fMRI study design, behavioural study design, lab management

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