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Anthony Purgianto, MD, PhD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Current Positions

  • Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
  • Director, Interventional Psychiatry Services

Education

  • BS in Biomedical Sciences, Marquette University
  • PhD in Neuroscience, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
  • MD, Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
  • Resident in Adult Psychiatry, University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center

Licenses & Certifications

  • Medical License, Iowa Board of Medicine, Iowa

Selected Publications

  • Purgianto, A. (2023) Development of Complete Heart Block during ECT Requiring Emergent Implantation of a Permanent Pacemaker. Journal of ECT 39 (4) 278-279. DOI: 10.1097/YCT.0000000000000953
  • Purgianto, A. & Nickl-Jockschat, T. (2022) Tardive Seizure in Patients With Intellectual Disabilities. The Journal of ECT 39 (1) 56-57. DOI: 10.1097/yct.0000000000000872
  • Purgianto A, Weinfeld ME, Wolf ME (2017) Prolonged withdrawal from cocaine self-administration affects prefrontal cortex-and basolateral amygdala-nucleus accumbens core circuits but not accumbens GABAergic local interneurons. Addiction Biology 22(6): 1682-1694. PMID: 27457780
  • Purgianto A, Loweth JA, Miao JJ, Milovanovic M, Wolf ME (2016) Withdrawal from extended access cocaine administration leads to a transient increase in surface expression of GABAA alpha2-containing receptors in the nucleus accumbens. Brain Research 1642: 336-343. PMID: 27060767
  • Purgianto A*, Scheyer AF*, Loweth JA, Ford KA, Tseng KY, Wolf ME (2013) Different adaptations in AMPA receptor transmission in the nucleus accumbens after short versus long access cocaine self-administration regimens. Neuropsychopharmacology 38(9): 1789-1797. PMID: 23546386
  • Ghasemzadeh MB, Vasudevan P, Giles C, Purgianto A, Seubert C, Mantsch JR (2011) Glutamatergic plasticity in medial prefrontal cortex and ventral tegmental area following extended-access cocaine self-administration. Brain Research 1413: 60-71. PMID: 21855055