Stuart Derbyshire

Datos Biográficos

ID6811845
NOMBREStuart Derbyshire
NOMBRESStuart
APELLIDODerbyshire
FIRMADERBYSHIRE S
AFILIACIONESNational University of Singapore
ORCID0000-0002-2766-3424
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAS2
OBRAS COMO AUTOR9
OBRAS COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2001
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • Assessing fetal and neonatal pain

    Stuart DerbyshireARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2026

    The debate over fetal and neonatal pain sits at the intersection of empirical science and ethical judgement. Advances in monitoring have revealed hormonal, neural and behavioural responses to noxious stimulation, even before birth. These responses clearly indicate nociception and physiological stress, but they do not constitute direct evidence of a conscious pain experience. Attributing pain requires interpretation, and disagreement persists rega…

  • The Hope and Reality of Pain Relief Using Psychological Manipulations

    Stuart W G Derbyshire, Stuart DerbyshireARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2024

    Many patients suffer from chronic pain despite the absence of injury or sufficient biomedical disease to explain their pain. These pains are highly resistant to treatment. Psychological therapies designed to help patients undermine the negative thought and behavioral patterns that maintain pain provide only modest pain relief, leading to suspicion that such pain might be maintained by unconscious processes. An article in this issue of Psychosomat…

  • Reconsidering fetal pain

    Stuart Derbyshire, John C BockmannARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2020

    Fetal pain has long been a contentious issue, in large part because fetal pain is often cited as a reason to restrict access to termination of pregnancy or abortion. We have divergent views regarding the morality of abortion, but have come together to address the evidence for fetal pain. Most reports on the possibility of fetal pain have focused on developmental neuroscience. Reports often suggest that the cortex and intact thalamocortical tracts…

  • Suggestions to Reduce Clinical Fibromyalgia Pain and Experimentally Induced Pain Produce Parallel Effects on Perceived Pain but Divergent Functional MRI–Based Brain Activity

    Open AccessStuart W G Derbyshire, Stuart Derbyshire et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2017

    OBJECTIVE: Hypnotic suggestion is an empirically validated form of pain control; however, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. METHODS: Thirteen fibromyalgia patients received suggestions to alter their clinical pain, and 15 healthy controls received suggestions to alter experimental heat pain. Suggestions were delivered before and after hypnotic induction with blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) activity measured concurrently. RESULTS: Acro…

  • The Use of Neuroimaging to Advance the Understanding of Chronic Pain

    Stuart W G Derbyshire, Stuart DerbyshireARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2014

    Functional imaging has comprehensively demonstrated that pain involves a number of cortical regions that are often collectively referred to as the pain neuromatrix. This neuromatrix is assumed to be necessary to process the sensory, affective, and cognitive components of pain. Patients who report pain in the apparent absence of injury or disease may experience their symptoms because of dysfunction in one or more components of the pain neuromatrix…

  • The Rebirth of Neuroscience in Psychosomatic Medicine, Part II

    Richard D Lane, Shari R Waldstein et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2009

    During the second half of the last century, biopsychosocial research in psychosomatic medicine largely ignored the brain. Neuroscience has started to make a comeback in psychosomatic medicine research and promises to advance the field in important ways. In this paper we briefly review select brain imaging research findings in psychosomatic medicine in four key areas: cardiovascular regulation, visceral pain in the context of functional gastrointe…

  • The Ethical Dilemma of Ethical Committees

    Open AccessStuart DerbyshireARTICLESociology Compass2008Citada por: 1Referencias: 6

    The Nuremberg code, a response to the 1946 Nuremberg Medical Trials, was the first attempt to formally state ethical requirements for medical research. The Code was generally ignored as a response to the peculiarly barbaric Nazi atrocities and an unnecessary fetter on normal research. A series of research scandals, however, led to more successful attempts at regulating medical research and to the introduction of various ethical committees during …

  • Fetal Pain

    Stuart W G Derbyshire, Stuart DerbyshireARTICLEReproductive Health Matters2008Citada por: 1Referencias: 45

    Raising the possibility of fetal pain continues as a tactic to undermine support for abortion in the US and the UK. This paper examines anatomical and psychological developments in the fetus to assess the possibility of fetal pain. Neurobiological features that develop at 7, 18 and 26 weeks gestation suggest an experience of pain in utero. Pain, however, cannot be inferred from these features because they are not informative about the state of co…

  • Cerebral Activation in Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Control Subjects During Rectosigmoid Stimulation

    Bruce D Naliboff, Stuart W G Derbyshire et al.

    OBJECTIVE: Patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) show evidence of altered perceptual responses to visceral stimuli, consistent with altered processing of visceral afferent information by the brain. In the current study, brain responses to anticipated and delivered rectal balloon distension were assessed. METHODS: Changes in regional cerebral blood flow were measured using H2(15)O-water positron emission tomography in 12 nonconstipated IBS …