
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.
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
Sex-specific associations between maternal pregnancy-specific anxiety and newborn amygdalar volumes-preliminary findings from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2022)
Stress
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Age and sex differences in the cortisol stress reactivity and recovery among infants exposed to prenatal psychological distress (2022)
Psychoneuroendocrinology
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Auditory Mismatch Responses to Emotional Stimuli in 3-Year-Olds in Relation to Prenatal Maternal Depression Symptoms (2022)
Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Brain charts for the human lifespan (2022)
Nature
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Imaging affective and non-affective touch processing in two-year-old children (2022)
NeuroImage
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Aerobic Fitness is Associated with Cerebral mu-Opioid Receptor Activation in Healthy Humans (2022)
Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
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Feasibility of FreeSurfer Processing for T1-Weighted Brain Images of 5-Year-Olds: Semiautomated Protocol of FinnBrain Neuroimaging Lab (2022)
Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Infant and Child MRI: A Review of Scanning Procedures (2021)
Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Associations Between Brain Gray Matter Volumes and Adipose Tissue Metabolism in Healthy Adults (2021)
Obesity
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A variation in the infant oxytocin receptor gene modulates infant hippocampal volumes in association with sex and prenatal maternal anxiety (2021)
Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
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