Faculty

Ruben C. Gur, PhD

Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry

Department: Psychiatry

Graduate Group Affiliations

Neuroscience

Contact information

University of Pennsylvania
3700 Hamilton Walk
Richards Building, Suite 5B
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office: (215) 615-3604
Fax: (215) 662-7903

Email:
gur@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Education:
B.A.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem , 1970.
M.A.
Michigan State University, 1971.
Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology)
Michigan State University, 1973.

Links
Neuropsychiatry Section

Permanent link

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Description of Research Expertise

Cognition
Schizophrenia
Neuroimaging

Description of Other Expertise

Medical Legal

Selected Publications

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fan XR, He Y, Wang YS, Li L; Lifespan Brain Chart Consortium (LBCC); China Autism Brain Imaging Consortium (CABIC); Duan X, Zuo XN.: Profiling brain morphology for autism spectrum disorder with two cross-culture large-scale consortia. Commun Biol 8: 1157, Aug 2025.

van der Walt K, Wootton O, Rokicki J, Vaskinn A, Jonker D, Campbell M, Susser E, Haukvik UK, Gur RC, Stein DJ, Friestad C.: Exploring the relationships between Early Childhood Adversity, Social Cognition, and Aggression in a South African Study of People Living with Schizophrenia. Schizophr Res Cogn 42: 100382, Aug 2025.

Townend S, Staginnus M, Gao Y, Alexander N, Arolt V, Banaschewski T, Bellgrove MA, Benegal V, Blair RJ, Blanco-Hinojo L, Boeken OJ, Böhnlein J, Bölte S, Bonnekoh LM, Brandeis D, Bressan RA, Breuer F, Bruin WB, Buitelaar JK, Burkhouse KL, Calkins ME, Cano M, Cardoner N, Chen H, Chen X, Coghill DR, Colins OF, Connolly CG, Craig MC, Cullen KR, Dannlowski U, Davey CG, Dietrich A, Dong D, Freitag CM, Frodl T, Goossens L, Grotegerd D, Gur RE, Gur RC, Haavik J, Hagan CC, Hahn T, Hamm AO, Harrison BJ, Hartman CA, Herrmann MJ, Ho TC, Hoekstra PJ, Holla B, Ibrahim K, Jackowski A, Jamalabadi H, Jiang Y, Kircher T, Konrad K, Kraus A, Kuntsi J, Langhammer T, Lazaro L, Leehr EJ, Lueken U, Ma R, MacMaster FP, Manfro GG, Martinelli A, Meinert H, Meinert S, Michałowski JM, Ming Q, Moeck R, Mujica-Parodi LR, Mwangi B, Neufeld J, Nigg JT, O'Gorman Tuura RL, Oh H, Oosterlaan J, Paloyelis Y, Pan PM, Passamonti L, Peñate W, Phan KL, Plessen KJ, Pujol J, Remnélius KL, Rivero F, Rubia K, Salas R, Salum GA, Satterthwaite TD, Schienle A, Schrammen E, Schruers KRJ, Schumann G, Sethi A, Silk T, Skokauskas N, Smoller J, Soares JC, et al.: Shared and distinct alterations in brain structure of youth with internalizing or externalizing disorders: Findings from the ENIGMA Antisocial Behavior, ADHD, MDD, and Anxiety Working Groups. Biol Psychiatry Aug 2025.

Shanta O, Klein M, Sacks M, MacDonald JR, Maihofer A, Ahangari M, Engchuan W, Thiruvahindrapuram B, Guevara J, Hong O, Huguet G, Sønderby I, Kalyuzhny M, Adams MJ, Adolfsson R, Agartz I, Aiello AE, Alda M, Allardyce J, Amstadter AB, Andlauer TFM, Andreassen OA, Artigas MS, Austin SB, Ayub M, Baker DG, Bass N, Baune BT, Bayas M, Berger K, Biernacka JM, Bigdeli T, Bisson JI, Blackwood D, Boks M, Braff D, Bramon E, Breen G, Brueckl T, Bryant RA, Bulik CM, Buxbaum J, Cairns MJ, Caldas-de-Almeida JM, Campbell M, Campion D, Carr VJ, Castelao E, Chaumette B, Cichon S, Cohen D, Corvin A, Craddock N, Crosbie J, Czamara D, Dannlowski U, Degenhardt F, Delahanty DL, Dempfle A, Desachy G, Di Florio A, Dickerson FB, Djurovic S, Domschke K, Douglas L, Drange OK, Duncan LE, Edenberg HJ, Esko T, Faraone S, Feeny NC, Forstner AJ, Franke B, Frye M, Fu DJ, Fullerton JM, Gareeva A, Garvert L, Gatt JM, Gejman P, Geschwind DH, Giegling I, Glatt SJ, Glessner J, Goes FS, Gordon-Smith K, Grabe H, Green MJ, Green MF, Greenwood T, Grigoroiu-Serbanescu M, Gur RE, Gur RC, Guzman-Parra J, Haavik J, Hahn T, Hakonarson H, Hallmayer J, Hamshere ML, Hartmann AM, et al.: A cross-disorder analysis of CNVs finds novel loci and dose-dependent relationships of genes to psychiatric traits. medRxiv Jul 2025.

Engchuan W, Shanta O, Kumar K, MacDonald JR, Thiruvahindrapuram B, Hamdan O, Klein M, Maihofer A, Guevara J, Hong O, Huguet G, Sacks M, Ahangari M, Feitosa RMMW, Han K, Mendes M, Zhou X, Bautista NX, Pellecchia G, Wang Z, Merico D, Yuen RKC, Trost B, Sønderby I, Adams MJ, Adolfsson R, Agartz I, Aiello AE, Alda M, Allardyce J, Amstadter AB, Andlauer TFM, Andreassen OA, Artigas MS, Austin SB, Ayub M, Baker DG, Bass N, Baune BT, Bayas M, Berger K, Biernacka JM, Bigdeli T, Bisson JI, Blackwood D, Boks M, Braff D, Bramon E, Breen G, Brueckl T, Bryant RA, Bulik CM, Buxbaum J, Cairns MJ, Caldas-de-Almeida JM, Campbell M, Campion D, Carr VJ, Castelao E, Chaumette B, Cichon S, Cohen D, Corvin A, Craddock N, Crosbie J, Czamara D, Dannlowski U, Degenhardt F, Delahanty DL, Dempfle A, Desachy G, Di Florio A, Dickerson FB, Djurovic S, Domschke K, Douglas L, Drange OK, Duncan LE, Edenberg HJ, Esko T, Faraone S, Feeny NC, Forstner AJ, Franke B, Frye M, Fu DJ, Fullerton JM, Gareeva A, Garvert L, Gatt JM, Gejman P, Geschwind DH, Giegling I, Glatt SJ, Glessner J, Goes FS, Gordon-Smith K, Grabe H, Green MJ, Green MF, et al.: Psychiatric disorders converge on common pathways but diverge in cellular context, spatial distribution, and directionality of genetic effects. medRxiv Jul 2025.