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John Purcell, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

pronouns: He/Him

CABM, 225
Mulle Lab

Education

BA Music, High Point University, 2013
BA Psychology, High Point University, 2013
PhD Clinical Psychology and Neuroscience, Indiana University, 2022

Bio

Dr. Purcell received his PhD in Clinical Psychology and Neuroscience from Indiana University in 2022 following completion of clinical internship at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow working with Drs. Jennifer Mulle and David Zald. His research investigates how disadvantageous decision-making is impacted by the perception of risk/uncertainty and positive valence systems subserving reward-seeking in psychosis-spectrum and affective disorders.

Outside of the lab, John enjoys singing, being in nature, baking, and dreaming of one day owning a pet skunk.

Research Focus

Psychosis, decision-making, reward processing

NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship (F31MH122122) 2020

Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute Core Pilot Grant (UL1TR002529) 2019

Hoosier Lottery Problem Gambling Dissertation Research Grant 2018

Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute Fellowship (UL1TR001108) 2018 - 2020

Clinical Translational Science Training Fellowship (T32MH103213) 2016 - 2018

Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS), Society for Research in Psychopathology, Biological Psychiatry

Purcell J, Brown J, Tullar R, et al. Insular and Striatal Correlates of Uncertain Risky Reward Pursuit in Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia bulletin. 2023. doi:10.1093/schbul/sbac206.
Purcell J, Herms E, Morales J, Hetrick W, Wisner K, Brown J. A review of risky decision-making in psychosis-spectrum disorders. Clinical psychology review. 2022;91:102112. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2021.102112.
Purcell J, Jahn A, Fine J, Brown J. Neural correlates of visual attention during risky decision evidence integration. NeuroImage. 2021;234:117979. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117979.
Purcell J, Lohani M, Musket C, Hay A, Isaacowitz D, Gruber J. Lack of emotional gaze preferences using eye-tracking in remitted bipolar I disorder. International journal of bipolar disorders. 2018;6(1):15. doi:10.1186/s40345-018-0123-y.
Purcell NCBI link