- Email:
- johnpurc@iu.edu
- Department:
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Program in Neural Science
- Campus:
- IU Bloomington
- Major:
- Clinical Psychology; Neuroscience
- Graduation year:
- expected 2021
- Hometown:
- Huntington, WV
John is a fifth-year graduate student, working under the mentorship of William Hetrick and Joshua Brown. After graduating from High Point University, John spent two years working in the Positive Emotion & Psychopathology and Clinical Neuroscience Labs at Yale and Colorado University. He is interested in using neuroimaging techniques (e.g. fMRI, DTI) to study the neural correlates of aberrant decision-making and reward processing in clinical and non-clinical samples. His current projects include:
- Discriminating Formal Representations of Risk in Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Inferior Frontal Gyrus
- Differential Responses in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex for Predictions of Potential Reward Outcomes
- Risk Formalisms and Decision-Making in Schizophrenia
- An Investigation of White Connectivity Properties in Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders via Graph Theory Analysis
During his time at IU, John has been supported under the following grants and awards:
- Centrial Indiana Community Foundation - Problem Gambling Research Fund
- Indiana Clinical Translational Science Institute Core Pilot Grant
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 Clinical Translational Science Training Fellowship
- Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (iCTSI) Predoctoral Fellowship in Translational Research
- Travel Awards from IU's Program in Neural Science and IU GLBTAA Research Travel Funding
He has also received honorable mention from the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP).
In his spare time, John enjoys opera and being active.