Lincoln M. Tracy

Research Fellow and Freelance Writer

Monash University

Biography

Lincoln M. Tracy is a researcher in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. He is currently undertaking research relating to burn injuries in Australia and New Zealand. His research interests include oxytocin, pain, and heart rate variability.

Outside of research Lincoln has conducted interviews and written for Pain Research Forum, RELIEF, BrainPost, and the Australian Pain Society.

Lincoln is the Assistant Editor for the Australian Pain Society Newsletter and the Secretary for the Australasian Society for Social and Affective Neuroscience.

Education

PhD in Psychology, 2017

Monash University
Specialist Certificate in Clinical Research (Neuroscience), 2013

The University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Honours), 2013

Monash University

Recent Peer-reviewed Publications

More Publications

Predictors of itch and pain in the 12 months following burn injury: Findings from the Burns Registry of Australia and New Zealand

LM Tracy, DW Edgar, R Schrale, H Cleland, BJ Gabbe

Sex moderates the relationship between resting heart rate variability and self-reported difficulties in emotion regulation

DP Williams, LM Tracy, GM Gerado, T Rahman, DP Spangler, J Koenig, JF Thayer

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Epidemiology of burn-related fatalities in Australia and New Zealand, 2009-2015

JA McInnes, H Cleland, PA Cameron, A Darton, LM Tracy, FM Wood, Y Singer, BJ Gabbe

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Epidemiology of work-related burn injuries presenting to burn centres in Australia and New Zealand

JA McInnes, H Cleland, LM Tracy, A Darton, FM Wood, T Perrett, BJ Gabbe

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Heart rate variability is associated with thermal heat pain threshold in males, but not females

LM Tracy, J Koenig, N Georgiou-Karistianis, SJ Gibson, MJ Giummarra

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Recent Posts

Focus and Frank: A Conversation with Sean Mackey

“Everybody Has Won and All Must Have Prizes”: Dodo Birds in Psychological Treatments for Chronic Pain

Communication Between Brain Regions During Working Memory

Back to Basics (Pain Research)

Identification of a Novel Neural Circuit for Depressive Symptoms in Chronic Pain

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Does chemoprophylaxis prevent venous thromboembolism in burns patients? Findings from the Burns Registry of Australia and New Zealand

Oct 18, 2019

43rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Burns Association

Project

Characteristics and Management of Burns in Older Adults

Oct 18, 2019

43rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Burns Association

Project

An Update on BQIP: Driving Improved Burn Care Through Registry Data

Oct 16, 2019

43rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Burns Association

Project

Projects

Writing

Freelance writing, interviews, and more.

Burn injuries

Investigating and reporting on burn injuries in Australia and New Zealand.

Heart rate variability

Understanding the role of heart rate variability in social and emotional processes.

Oxytocin

Examining how the oxytocin system impacts psychophysiological processes.

Pain

Approaching pain from a social and affective neuroscience perspective.