DERBYSHIRE, STUART WILLIAM GEORGE
Associate Professor
Psychology,
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,
National University of Singapore
psydswg@nus.edu.sg
(65) 6516 4115
Brief Introduction
A/P Stuart Derbyshire is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in National University of Singapore (NUS), with a joint appointment at University Scholars Programme (USP). A/P Derbyshire obtained his PhD and BSc at University College London and then began a fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. He worked at the University of California, Los Angeles and at the University of Birmingham (UK) before joining NUS in 2013 and USP in 2017.
Teaching Modules @ USP
A/P Derbyshire offers the following module:
Research Interests
A/P Derbyshire has worked with imaging technologies (PET and fMRI, some EEG) for more than three decades. His central aim has always been to understand what the brain does when someone reports pain. More specific questions have included:
What is the nature of pain? Is it inherently surprising or unpleasant?
What is the role of cortical activity during pain experience?
How does pain develop? Does pain automatically emerge once certain neural processes are in place or is a period of cognitive and affective development necessary for pain experience?
How does hypnosis alter pain experience?
Why and when do noxious stimuli not hurt?
Titles of Independent Study Modules (ISMs) Previously Supervised (for USP students)
- The Big Five: A Comparison of Different Personality Types Across Residential Colleges in NUS
- Intergenerational Peceptions on Depression in Singapore
- The Representation of Mental Illness in Singapore's News Media
- Examining the Phenomenon of Digital Clutter and its Effects
Selected Publications
Asplund CL, Kannangath A, Long V, Derbyshire SWG. Offset analgesia is reduced on the palm and increases with stimulus duration. European Journal of Pain, 2021; 25: 790-800.
Derbyshire SWG, Bockmann JC. Reconsidering fetal pain. Journal of Medical Ethics, 2020; 46: 3-6.
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, 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. Pain and the dangers of objectivity. In, Human Meanings of Pain. SV Rysewyk, Ed. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland 2017.
McLatchie N, Ginner-Sorola R, Derbyshire SWG. ‘Imagined guilt’ versus ‘recollected guilt’: Implications for fMRI. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 2016; 11: 703-711.
Derbyshire SWG, Bushell R, Angel I. Soccer injuries vary according to team advantage; Frontiers in Psychology 2016; 7: 613.