Sean P. Drummond, Ph.D.
Associate Professor In Residence
SDVAMC
3350 La Jolla Village Drive
San Diego, CA 92161
Phone #: 858 642 1274
Fax #: 858 458 4201
E-mail: drummond@ucsd.edu

Biography 
Dr. Drummond first became fascinated with sleep research when he volunteered as an undergraduate research assistant in the Sleep Research Laboratory at the University of Arizona under the direction of Richard Bootzin, PhD and Michael Perlis, PhD (then a graduate student). After college, he worked with Sarah Mosko, PhD at UC Irvine Medical Center investigating mother-infant co-sleeping. For graduate school, he attended the SDSU-UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology where he worked with J. Christian Gillin, MD. He completed his Pre-doctoral Internship at the Tucson VA hospital and then returned to UCSD as a Postdoctoral Fellow working with Gregory G. Brown PhD. He joined the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry in October 2002.

Research Focus 
Dr. Drummond’s research focuses largely on the effects of sleep loss on brain function. “Sleep loss” is typically imposed experimentally, although he also has an interest in both natural and pathological sleep loss (e.g., from sleep or psychiatric) disorders, as well as differences in habitual sleep need. “Brain function” in their studies is measured through both cognitive performance and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In addition to the effects of sleep loss, he is also interested in sleepiness countermeasures (including sleep itself!). Finally, she also has an interest in the interaction between sleep and substances of abuse.

Clinical Focus 
His clinical interests lie largely in sleep disorders, particularly behavioral sleep medicine.

Selected Publications 

• Drummond, S.P.A., Brown, G.G., Stricker, J.L., Buxton, R.B., Wong E.C., Gillin, J.C. Sleep deprivation induced reduction in cortical functional response to serial subtraction. NeuroReport. 1999, 10(18):3745-3748.
• Drummond, S.P.A., Brown, G.G., Gillin, J.C., Stricker, J.L., Wong, E.C., Buxton, R.B. Altered brain response to verbal learning following sleep deprivation. Nature. 2000, 403:655-657.
• Drummond, S.P.A., Gillin, J.C., Brown, G.G. Increased cerebral response during a divided attention task following sleep deprivation. Journal of Sleep Research. 2001, 10(2): 85-92.
• Drummond, S.P.A., Brown, G.G. The effects of total sleep deprivation on cerebral response to cognitive performance. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2001, 25(S5): S68-S73.
• Drummond, S.P.A., Brown G.G., Salamat, J.S. Brain Regions Involved in Simple and Complex Grammatical Transformations. NeuroReport (in press).