Faculty

Raquel E. Gur, MD, PhD

Karl and Linda Rickels Professor of Psychiatry

Department: Psychiatry

Graduate Group Affiliations

Neuroscience

Contact information

Department of Psychiatry
Neurodevelopment and Psychosis Section
3400 Spruce Street, 10th Floor Gates Building
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283

Office: (215) 662-3718
Fax: (215) 662-7903

Email:
raquel@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Education:

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1970.
B.S. (Psychology)
Michigan State University, 1971.
M.A.
Michigan State University , 1972.
Ph.D. (Psychology)
Michigan State University, 1974.

Predoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University , 1974.

Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1975.
M.D. (Medicine)
University of Pennsylvania, 1980.

Links
Neurodevelopment and Psychosis Section Faculty Page
Perelman SOM Faculty Page

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Description of Research Expertise

The study of brain and behavior in normative and neuropsychiatric populations

Neuropsychiatric presentation and course of psychosis

Neurodevelopmental disorders associated with rare copy number variants

Selected Publications

Gur RE.: Pathways to Psychosis: Factors Associated With Risk for Psychosis Spectrum Disorders. Am J Psychiatry 182: 984-990, Nov 2025.

Zimmerman D, Mandal AS, Jung B, Buczek MJ, Schabdach JM, Karandikar S, Kafadar E, Gardner M, Daniali M, Mercedes L, Kohler S, Abdel-Qader L, Gur RE, Roalf DR, Satterthwaite TD, Williams R, Padmanabhan V, Seidlitz J, White LK, Sotardi S, Schmitt JE, Vossough A, Alexander-Bloch A.: Systematic protocol to identify 'clinical controls' for paediatric neuroimaging research from clinically acquired brain MRIs. BMJ Open 15: e106428, Oct 2025.

Mercedes L, Buczek MJ, Kafadar E, DiDomenico G, Jung B, Zimmerman D, Schabdach JM, Himes MM, Sotardi S, Vossough A, Driesbaugh KH, Moore T, Barzilay R, Calkins ME, Gur RE, Roalf DR, Satterthwaite TD, White LK, Alexander-Bloch A.: A prospective protocol for remotely investigating brain-behaviour-genetics associations in adolescent patients in a paediatric health system with pre-existing clinical brain MRIs. BMJ Open 15: e106431, Oct 2025.

Calkins ME, Ered A, Moore TM, White LK, Taylor J, Moxam AB, Ruparel K, Wolf DH, Satterthwaite TD, Kohler CG, Gur RC, Gur RE.: Development and Validation of a Brief Age-Normed Screening Tool for Subthreshold Psychosis Symptoms in Youth. Schizophr Bull 51: 1242-1253, Sep 2025.

Shafiei G, Esper NB, Hoffmann MS, Ai L, Chen AA, Cluce J, Covitz S, Giavasis S, Lane C, Mehta K, Moore TM, Salo T, Tapera TM, Calkins ME, Colcombe S, Davatzikos C, Gur RE, Gur RC, Pan PM, Jackowski AP, Rokem A, Rohde LA, Shinohara RT, Tottenham N, Zuo XN, Cieslak M, Franco AR, Kiar G, Salum GA, Milham MP, Satterthwaite TD.: Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health. Neuron Sep 2025.

Kamalakannan SMV, Male AG, Yilan Li M, Lella A, Lee J, Quidé Y, Green MJ, Cairns MJ, Carr VJ, Catts S, Henskens FA, Jablensky A, Loughland C, Michie P, Mowry B, Pantelis C, Shall U, Scott RJ, Belger A, Bustillo J, Lim K, Ford JM, Mathalon DH, Preda A, Mueller B, Potkin SG, Satterhwaite TD, Gur RC, Gur RE, Banaj N, Vecchio D, Piras F, Piras F, Ehrlich S, Bernardoni F, Borgwardt S, Cobia D, Alpert K, Wang L, Agartz I, Jönsson EG, Kaiser S, Pomarol-Clotet E, Salvador R, López-Jaramillo C, Diaz-Zuluaga AM, Pineda-Zapata J, Kircher T, Stein F, Krug A, Dannlowski U, Grotegerd D, Marsman JB, Aleman A, Ahmed AO, Strauss GP, Thompson PA, Krischner M, Calhoun VD, Turner JA, van Erp TGM.: Neuroanatomical Correlates of Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia. bioRxiv Sep 2025.

Pan R, Weinstein SM, Tu D, Hu F, Tanrıverdi B, Zhang R, Vandekar SN, Baller EB, Gur RC, Gur RE, Alexander-Bloch AF, Satterthwaite TD, Park JY.: Mapping individual differences in intermodal coupling in neurodevelopment. Imaging Neurosci (Camb) 3: IMAG, Sep 2025.

Merikangas AK, Schultz LM, Ruparel K, Lateef T, Gur RE, Almasy L.: Do Common Genetic Factors Underlie Comorbidity Between Migraine and Major Depressive Disorder in Youth? Pediatr Neurol 173: 166-172, Sep 2025.

Rauland A, Meisler SL, Alexander-Bloch AF, Bagautdinova J, Baller EB, Gur RE, Gur RC, Luo AC, Moore TM, Popovych OV, Reetz K, Roalf DR, Shinohara RT, Sotardi S, Sydnor VJ, Vossough A, Eickhoff SB, Cieslak M, Satterthwaite TD.: Benchmarking Orientation Distribution Function Estimation Methods for Tractometry in Single-Shell Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging - An Evaluation of Test-Retest Reliability and Predictive Capability. bioRxiv Sep 2025.

Zimmerman D, Mandal AS, Jung B, Buczek MJ, Schabdach JM, Karandikar S, Kafadar E, Gardner M, Daniali M, Mercedes L, Kohler S, Abdel-Qader L, Gur RE, Roalf D, Satterthwaite TD, Williams R, Padmanabhan V, Seidlitz J, White LK, Sotardi S, Schmitt JE, Vossough A, Alexander-Bloch A.: A systematic protocol to identify "clinical controls" for pediatric neuroimaging research from clinically acquired brain MRIs. bioRxiv Aug 2025.