School of Psychology

Dr Peter Drummond

Professor

RESEARCH:
Clinical psychophysiology of health-related conditions (pain, emotions, headaches, cardiovascular disorders).

ACTIVITIES:
Peter received funding from the U.K. Migraine Trust (2001) and the National Health & Medical Research Council of Australia (2001-2003) to investigate mechanisms of migraine. He recently participated as an invited speaker in specialist symposia organized by the International Association for the Study of Pain on complex regional pain syndrome and by the International Headache Society on cluster headache and gave the MacDonald Critchley lecture at the 15th International Migraine Symposium in 2004.

TEACHING:
Motivation & Emotion, Masters of Applied Psychology (Clin & Health)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Drummond, P.D., Camacho, L., Formentin, N., Heffernan, T.D., Williams, F. & Zekas, T.E. (2003) The impact of verbal feedback about blushing on social discomfort and facial blood flow during embarrassing tasks. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 41, 413-425.
  
  
• Drummond, P.D. (2002). Motion sickness and migraine: Optokinetic stimulation increases scalp tenderness, pain sensitivity in the fingers and photophobia. Cephalalgia, 22, 117-124
  

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