John P John

About

Dr. John P. John is a Professor of Psychiatry at NIMHANS. He underwent post-graduate training in Psychiatry at NIMHANS and post-doctoral training in MRI analyses at the Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA. He has been a faculty at NIMHANS since 2002. His area of clinical specialization is General Adult Psychiatry. His research interest is in linking multi-modal brain imaging techniques (sMRI, fMRI, MRS, DTI, EEG, ERP, PSG) and genomics in understanding the neurobiology of schizophrenia, dementia as well as of different cognitive states.

Employment

• National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences Consultant Adult Psychiatrist
  2002 - Present
• National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences Professor
  2002 - Present

Education

• Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine Post doctoral fellowship: MRI
  2003 - 2005
• National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences M.D. (Psychiatry)
  1995 - 1998
• Government Medical College MBBS
  1987 - 1994

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (121)

• A novel precision medicine framework based on the excitation-inhibition imbalance model, for treatment of schizophrenia across the life span
  2026 DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/eqn4d_v1
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• A functional MRI and magnetoencephalography study of the cognitive modulatory effect of transcranial direct current stimulation in early Alzheimer’s disease
  Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2026 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2026.1767772
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• PrecInNor: An Indo-Norway collaborative programme for precision psychiatry training
  Asian Journal of Psychiatry 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2026.104852
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• The DNA methyltransferase complex conundrum: novel DNA methyltransferase 1 mutation in an Indian patient with dementia and sensory neural hearing loss on a background of long-standing psychosis
  Psychiatric Genetics 2025 DOI: 10.1097/ypg.0000000000000397
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• Vitamin B12, Homocysteine, and Cognitive Function in the Older Adults Attending Tertiary Geriatric Psychiatry Centre: A Retrospective Case Notes Based Study
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.02.25332580
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• 50,000 years of evolutionary history of India: Impact on health and disease variation
  Cell 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2025.04.027
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• Design and methodology of the harmonized diagnostic assessment of dementia for the longitudinal aging study in India: Wave 2
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2025 DOI: 10.1111/jgs.19252
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• Avertible filicide: a call to action for early intervention and mental health support in India
  Archives of Women's Mental Health 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s00737-025-01559-0
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• Sequential ketamine infusion and electroconvulsive therapy in severe depression with psychotic symptoms and pseudo-dementia – A case report
  Asian Journal of Psychiatry 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2025.104383
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• Microstructural mapping of neural pathways in Alzheimer's disease using macrostructure‐informed normative tractometry
  Alzheimer's & Dementia 2025 DOI: 10.1002/alz.14371
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