Juho Joutsa
MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology
Turku Brain and Mind Center jtjout@utu.fi Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3457-9415 |
Neurology, Movement disorders, Neuroimaging, Brain stimulation
Professor of Neurology, Clinical Neurosciences, University of Turku, 2023-
Chief neurologist, Neurocenter, Turku University Hospital, 2023-
Associate Professor, Neuroimaging, Turku Brain and Mind Center, University of Turku, 2022-2023
Assistant Professor, Neuroimaging, Turku Brain and Mind Center, University of Turku, 2019-2022
Specialist in Neurology, University on Turku, 2020
Postdoctoral Researcher (Academy of Finland) 2016-2019
Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 2016-2018
Adjunct Professor, Department of Neurology University of Turku, 2015-
PhD, University of Turku, 2012
MD, University of Turku, 2009
Currently, I work as Professor of Neurology at University of Turku and chief neurologist at Turku University Hospital. I lead Brain Stimulation and Neuroimaging laboratory at University of Turku (www.turkubrainlab.fi) and act as the chair of Turku Brain and Mind Center.
My research work focuses on investigating the neurobiological mechanisms of brain disorders and development of new treatment options using neuromodulation techniques. I am interested in a wide spectrum of brain disorders but especially neurological movement disorders and addictions. Our lab uses multimodal approach, combining causal brain lesions, state-of-the-art brain imaging technologies (MRI, PET, SPECT) and neuromodulation techniques (TMS, DBS, MRgFUS).
10 representative publications:
Honkanen EA, Rönkä J, Pekkonen E, Aaltonen J, Koivu M, Eskola O, Eldebakey H, Volkmann J, Kaasinen V, Reich MM, Joutsa J. GPi-DBS induced brain metabolic activation in cervical dystonia. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 2023
Joutsa J, Lipsman N, Horn A, Cosgrove GR, Fox MD. The return of the lesion for localization and therapy. Brain 2023;146(8):3146-55.
Schaper F, Nordberg J, Cohen AL, Lin C, Hsu J, Horn A, Ferguson MA, Siddiqi SH, Soussand L, Winkler A, Simo M, Bruna J, Rheims S, Guenot M, Bucci M, Nummenmaa L, Staals J, Colon A, Ackermans L, Bubrick E, Peters J, Wu O, Rost N, Grafman J, Blumenfeld H, Temel Y, Rouhl R, Joutsa J*, Fox MD*. Lesion-related epilepsy maps to a common brain network. JAMA Neurol 2023;80(9):891-902.
Corp DT, Greenwood C, Morrison-Ham J, Pullinen J, McDowall G, Younger E, Jinnah H, Fox MD, Joutsa J. Clinical and structural findings in patients with lesion-induced dystonia: descriptive and quantitative analysis of all published cases. Neurology 2022;99(18):1957-67.
Joutsa J*, Moussawi K*, Siddiqi S* et al. Brain lesion disrupting addiction map to a common human brain circuit. Nature Medicine 2022;28:1249-55.
Joutsa J*, Shih LC*, Fox MD. Mapping Holmes’ tremor circuit using the human brain connectome. Ann Neurol 2019;86(6):812-20.
Corp DT*, Joutsa J*, Darby RR, Delnooz CCS, van den Warrenburg BPC, Ren J, Batla A, Bhatia KP, Jinnah HA, Liu H, Fox MD. Network localization of cervical dystonia from causal brain lesions. Brain 2019;142(6):1660-74.
Joutsa J, Horn A, Hsu J, Fox MD. Localization of parkinsonism based on focal brain lesions. Brain 2018;141(8):2445-56.
Joutsa J*, Shih LC*, Horn A, Reich MM, Wu O, Rost N, Fox MD. Identifying therapeutic targets from spontaneous beneficial brain lesions. Ann Neurol. 2018;84(1):153-7.
Joutsa J, Rinne JO, Hermann B, Karrasch M, Anttinen A, Shinnar S, Sillanpää M. Association between childhood-onset epilepsy and amyloid burden 5 decades later. JAMA Neurology 2017;74(5):583-90.
*Equal contribution
Lead teacher in neurology, M.D. curriculum
- Converging Evidence for Frontopolar Cortex as a Target for Neuromodulation in Addiction Treatment (2024)
- American Journal of Psychiatry
(Refereed review article in scientific journal (A2)) - Current opinions and practices in post-stroke movement disorders : Survey of movement disorders society members (2024)
- Journal of the Neurological Sciences
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Abnormal frontostriatal connectivity and serotonin function in gambling disorder: A preliminary exploratory study (2023)
- Journal of behavioral addictions
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Adenosine A2A receptor availability in patients with early- and moderate-stage Parkinson’s disease (2023)
- Journal of Neurology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Brain lesion locations associated with secondary seizure generalization in tumors and strokes (2023)
- Human Brain Mapping
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Dopamine transporter binding in the brain is linked to irritable bowel syndrome in Parkinson's disease (2023)
- Brain and Behavior
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Floating door sign does not differentiate Parkinson's disease from essential tremor (2023)
- Clinical Parkinsonism and Related Disorders
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - GPi-DBS-induced brain metabolic activation in cervical dystonia (2023)
- Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Kohdennettu ultraääni vapinan hoidossa (2023)
- Duodecim
(Refereed review article in scientific journal (A2)) - Large-scale activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of parkinsonian disorders (2023)
- Brain Communications
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Mapping a network for tics in Tourette syndrome using causal lesions and structural alterations (2023)
- Brain Communications
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Mapping Essential Tremor to a Common Brain Network Using Functional Connectivity Analysis (2023)
- Neurology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Mapping Lesion-Related Epilepsy to a Human Brain Network (2023)
- JAMA Neurology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Serotonergic and dopaminergic control of impulsivity in gambling disorder (2023)
- Addiction Biology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - The functional anatomy of dystonia: Recent developments (2023) International Review of Neurobiology: Dystonia Corp Daniel T., Morrison-Ham Jordan, Jinnah Hyder A., Joutsa Juho
(Book chapter (B2)) - The return of the lesion for localization and therapy (2023)
- Brain
(Refereed review article in scientific journal (A2)) - A brain network for deep brain stimulation induced cognitive decline in Parkinson's disease (2022)
- Brain
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - A human brain circuit for addiction remission (2022)
- Nature Medicine
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Brain lesions disrupting addiction map to a common human brain circuit (2022)
- Nature Medicine
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Clinical and Structural Findings in Patients With Lesion-Induced Dystonia Descriptive and Quantitative Analysis of Published Cases (2022)
- Neurology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))