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Saara
Nolvi
Senior Research Fellow, Psychology
Docent, Faculty of Social Sciences
Ph.D (FT), adjunct professor (dos.)
Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS); Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology; the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study.

Contact

Kiinamyllynkatu 10
20520
Turku

Links

FinnBrain Study
PeCCaPs Study
ResearchGate profile
ORCID

Areas of expertise

prenatal stress
early life stress
postnatal stress
anxiety
temperament
fear reactivity
executive functioning
socioemotional development
cognitive development
structural equation modelling
milk cortisol
brain structure
amygdala
MRI
fMRI, DTI

Biography

Pronouns: she/hers

Teaching

Teacher education (60 ects); experience from teaching and lecturing from all age groups and educational levels

Taught courses currently:

PSYK3933 Developmental psychology I

PSYK4323 Master's thesis (Psychology)

Research

I am adjunct professor and psychologist and currently work as post-doctoral reseacher in Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) under the division of Psychology and in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study. I have currently started as senior researcher in the InterLearn Centre of Excellence, funded by Academy of Finland. 

My research focuses on early life environmental effects on child self-regulation development and the neural and other biological mechanisms underlying these associations. I am also interested in the inter-individual differences in sensitivity to stress and environment, and how these differences in plasticity are shaped by the environment across development. I conduct the research in a multi-cohort setting, with an aim is to use methods that increase reproducibility and research credibility.

Publications

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Subcortical and hippocampal brain segmentation in 5-year-old children: Validation of FSL-FIRST and FreeSurfer against manual segmentation (2022)

European Journal of Neuroscience
Lidauer Kristian, Pulli Elmo P., Copeland Anni, Silver Eero, Kumpulainen Venla, Hashempour Niloofar, Merisaari Harri, Saunavaara Jani, Parkkola Riitta, Lähdesmäki Tuire, Saukko Ekaterina, Nolvi Saara, Kataja Eeva-Leena, Karlsson Linnea, Karlsson Hasse, Tuulari Jetro J.
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Neonatal Amygdala Volumes and the Development of Self-Regulation from Early Infancy to Toddlerhood (2021)

Neuropsychology
Nolvi Saara, Tuulari Jetro J., Pelto Juho, Bridgett David J., Eskola Eeva, Lehtola Satu J., Hashempour Niloofar, Korja Riikka, Kataja Eeva-Leena, Saunavaara Jani, Parkkola Riitta, Lähdesmäki Tuire, Scheinin Noora M., Fernandes Michelle, Karlsson Linnea, Lewis John D., Fonov Vladimir S., Collins D. Louis, Karlsson Hasse
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
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