- Email:
- johnpurc@umail.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 3rd 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:
During his time at IU, John has been supported under the following grants and awards:
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.