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Dominick P. Purpura (April

2, 1927—May 16, 2019) was a neuroscientist. who was well known for his research

focused on intellectual disability.

His work also focused on the origin of brain waves, developmental neurobiology,

and epilepsy. From 1982 to 1983, Purpura was appointed as the

president of the Society for Neuroscience. In

1984, he was recruited to be the dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. He

served as the dean for a total of 22 years. Purpura was born in Manhattan, New York on April 2, 1927 and grew up in

the Upper East Side.

After World War II, Purpura

served in the United States Air Force. In

1948, Dr. Purpura married Florence Williams and eventually had four children:

Craig, Kent, Keith, and Allyson.Along with four children, he also

had four grandchildren. In his later years, Purpura resided

in Manhattan, New York with

his wife. On May 16, 2019, he passed away at the age of 92. In 1949, Dominick

P. Purpura earned his Bachelor's degree from Columbia University. He graduated

magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School  with a Medical degree. Purpura went

on to teach at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons before

being recruited to teach and be the chair of anatomy at the Albert

Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in 1967. He left Einstein in 1982 to be the

dean of the Stanford

University School of Medicine,  however he went back to the Albert Einstein

College of Medicine in 1984 where he remained for the rest of his career After

being recruited in 1967, Purpura served as the Scientific Director of the

Einstein’s Rose F. Kennedy Center for Mental Retardation and Developmental

Disabilities from 1969-1972. The center focused on both

developmental and intellectual disabilities, which were also the focus of

Purpura's research. After two years as the scientific director, he was

appointed as the center's director. In 1974, he founded the neuroscience department

at the university. For a brief moment, Purpura was the dean of Stanford's

School of Medicine but his heart belonged to Albert Einstein College of

Medicine of Yeshiva University. By 1984, Purpura achieved the status of dean of

the university. Purpura is duly recognized as "the longest-serving dean of

any medical school in the United States"  after serving a total

of 22 years at Einstein. Due to this long term served, Purpura was able to

accomplish many things throughout his career. During his time as Dean, Purpura

was quoted as positioning Einstein as the "educational hub"  of

the five major teaching hospitals in New York : Monteflore Medical Center, Bronx-Lebanon Hospital

Center, Jacobi Medical Center, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Beth Israel Medical Center.

Since his retirement in 2006, the neuroscience department at the College of

Medicine has been named after him as a way to recognize both his leadership at

the university and in the field of neuroscience. Throughout Purpura's

professional and academic career he published over 200 scientific articles and

chapters. In 1982, Purpura was appointed as the president for the Society of

Neuroscience for a one year term. During his time as president, Dominick

Purpura oversaw the Long-Range Planning Report which helped define the

structure, policies, and programs of the Society. The Report resulted in a

much more well-rounded society that focused on education and increasing the

diversity of the Society. Dominick Purpura's research centered on intellectual

disability, developmental neurobiology, brain waves, and epilepsy. In 2009,

Purpura along with colleague Mark F. Mehler researched the relationship between

an unregulated noradrenergic system during development and Autism Spectrum Disorders. The

noradrenergic receptors are involved with stress response, learning, memory and

more. Their hypothesis resulted in further research in the field in an attempt

to discover ways to target this system in order to help those with autistic

disorders. Purpura also researched the relationship between brain wave activity

and temperature using golden hamsters. His research in this area resulted in

the discovery that hamsters show no brain waves below a bodily temperature of

19 degrees celsius. This discovery lead to investigation of the connection

between temperature and the activity of the nervous system. Along with a few

other colleagues, Dr. Purpura studied electrical stimulation to the human

cortex. They showed that direct stimulation to the human cortex resulted

in a negative response, then a slow positive response, and a slower negative

response. This study lead to further investigation of possible surgeries to

help those with epilepsy.

"Neuroscientist" Dominick Purpura Hand Signed FDC Dated 1964

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