
Jetro
Tuulari
Collegium Researcher, Psychiatry
Adjunct Professor, Department of Clinical Medicine
M.D., Ph.D., Adjunct Professor. Principal Investigator of FinnBrain Neuroimaging Lab
We study how early life exposures, genes and environment shape the brain structure, brain function and how these relate to health and wellbeing.
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Areas of expertise
Neuroscience
Brain development
Obesity
Pleasure in the brain
Eating
Exercise
Social touch
Neuroimaging
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI
fMRI
dMRI)
Positron emission tomography (PET). Connectomics
Whole brain modelling. Emerging expertise in population neuroscience.
Biography
After getting an M.D. degree in 2014, I defended my awarded PhD thesis on the brain changes of morbid obesity and weight loss surgery in 2015 and received Adjunct professorship in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2018. I am currently Principal Investigator of the FinnBrain Neuroimaging Lab and the work is related to solving the mysteries of the developing brain.
Teaching
I have had seminal role in the launch of Human Neuroscience Master's Programme at the Turku Brain and Mind Center, where my teaching activities will continue in the future. I am also an expert in tutoring / mentoring.
Publications
A variation in the infant oxytocin receptor gene modulates infant hippocampal volumes in association with sex and prenatal maternal anxiety (2021)
Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Newborn amygdalar volumes are associated with maternal prenatal psychological distress in a sex-dependent way (2020)
NeuroImage: Clinical
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Sex-specific association between infant caudate volumes and a polygenic risk score for major depressive disorder (2020)
Journal of Neuroscience Research
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Prenatal maternal depressive symptoms are associated with smaller amygdalar volumes of four-year-old children (2020)
Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
A systematic review of MRI studies of language development from birth to 2 years of age (2020)
Developmental Neurobiology
(A2 Katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikauslehdessä)
Prevalence and Risk Factors of Incidental Findings in Brain MRIs of Healthy Neonates—The FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2020)
Frontiers in Neurology
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Newborn white matter microstructure moderates the association between maternal postpartum depressive symptoms and infant negative reactivity (2020)
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Association of Cumulative Paternal Early Life Stress With White Matter Maturation in Newborns (2020)
JAMA Network Open
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Maternal sleep quality during pregnancy is associated with neonatal auditory ERPs (2020)
Scientific Reports
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Partial Support for an Interaction Between a Polygenic Risk Score for Major Depressive Disorder and Prenatal Maternal Depressive Symptoms on Infant Right Amygdalar Volumes (2020)
Cerebral Cortex
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)