
Lauri
Nummenmaa
Professor, Turku PET Centre
PhD
Areas of expertise
Emotions
Psychology
Neurotransmission
Neuroimaging
Biography
I did my undergraduate studies majoring in psychology at University of Turku, Finland. I defended my PhD on neurocognitive mechanisms of social attention at University of Turku in 2006. After that, I worked as a post-doc at the MRC CBU in Cambridge, UK studying neural mechanisms of face perception in Andy Calder’s group. I returned to Finland in 2008, to work as Academy of Finland junior fellow and subsequently as senior fellow at Turku Pet Center and Aalto University. After a four-year appointment as Assistant professor in cognitive neuroscience at Aalto University, I returned to the University of Turku with my laboratory. Currently I lead the Human Emotion Systems laboratory at Turku PET Centre and Department of Psychology, University of Turku.
Teaching
Our group focuses on training world-class PhDs, and junior & senior scientists in neuroscience and signal analysis.
Research
Our group studies functional and molecular neural mechanisms of human emotions and social interaction in complex, life-like settings with magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, magneto- and electroencephalography and behavioural techniques. I have written over 100 scientific articles on brain basis of emotions and social cognition, and acquired more than 4M€ grant money for our group. Currently our research is funded by the European Research Council, the Academy of Finland, The Sigrid Juselius Foundation and the Emil Aaltonen Foundation.
Publications
Aberrant motor contagion of emotions in psychopathy and high-functioning autism (2022)
Cerebral Cortex
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Mu-opioid receptor system modulates responses to vocal bonding and distress signals in humans (2022)
Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences
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Classification of emotion categories based on functional connectivity patterns of the human brain (2022)
NeuroImage
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Brain structural alterations in autism and criminal psychopathy (2022)
NeuroImage: Clinical
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Association of CNR1 gene and cannabinoid 1 receptor protein in the human brain (2022)
Journal of Neuroscience Research
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Circulating neurofilament is linked with morbid obesity, renal function, and brain density (2022)
Scientific Reports
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Mapping emotions on the body (2022)
Scandinavian Journal of Pain
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))
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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[11C]carfentanil PET imaging for studying the peripheral opioid system in vivo: effect of photoperiod on mu-opioid receptor availability in brown adipose tissue (2022)
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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Atlas of type 2 dopamine receptors in the human brain: Age and sex dependent variability in a large PET cohort (2022)
NeuroImage
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