
Jetro
Tuulari
Collegium Researcher, Psychiatry
Docent, Department of Clinical Medicine
M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor. Principal Investigator of FinnBrain Neuroimaging Lab, Head of Neuroimaging, InterLearn
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 as the leading coordinator of courses on neuroimaging methods.
Publications
Maternal psychological distress associates with alterations in resting-state low-frequency fluctuations and distal functional connectivity of the neonate medial prefrontal cortex (2023)
European Journal of Neuroscience
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Maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index is associated with newborn offspring hypothalamic mean diffusivity: a prospective dual-cohort study (2023)
BMC Medicine
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Course of child social-emotional and sleep symptoms, parental distress and pandemic-related stressors during COVID-19 (2023)
Development and Psychopathology
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Relationships between alexithymia and food addiction: The Finnish version of Yale Food Addiction Scale and preliminary test of its psychometric properties (2023)
Frontiers in Psychology
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Association of cumulative prenatal adversity with infant subcortical structure volumes and child problem behavior and its moderation by a coexpression polygenic risk score of the serotonin system (2023)
Development and Psychopathology
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Sex differences, asymmetry, and age-related white matter development in infants and 5-year-olds as assessed with tract-based spatial statistics (2023)
Human Brain Mapping
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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
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
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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Test-retest reliability of diffusion tensor imaging scalars in 5-year-olds (2022)
Human Brain Mapping
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Sex-specific associations between maternal pregnancy-specific anxiety and newborn amygdalar volumes-preliminary findings from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2022)
Stress
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))