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
- Diagnostic value of micrographia in Parkinson's disease: a study with [I-123]FP-CIT SPECT (2022)
- Journal of Neural Transmission
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Differences in brain changes between adults with childhood-onset epilepsy and controls: A prospective population-based study (2022)
- Acta Neurologica Scandinavica
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Effects of non-invasive brain stimulation in dystonia: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2022)
- Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Gaps, Controversies, and Proposed Roadmap for Research in Poststroke Movement Disorders (2022)
- Movement Disorders
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Gastrointestinal Symptoms and Dopamine Transporter Asymmetry in Early Parkinson's Disease (2022)
- Movement Disorders
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Impulse Control Disorder Behaviors in Dystonia (2022)
- Movement Disorders
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Lesion network mapping for symptom localization: recent developments and future directions (2022)
- Current Opinion in Neurology
(Refereed review article in scientific journal (A2)) - Lesion Network Mapping Using Resting-State Functional Connectivity MRI (2022) Lesion-to-Symptom Mapping Joutsa Juho, Darby R. Ryan, Fox Michael D.
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Network Effects of Brain Lesions Causing Central Poststroke Pain (2022)
- Annals of Neurology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Neurobiological effects of deep brain stimulation: A systematic review of molecular brain imaging studies (2022)
- NeuroImage
(Refereed review article in scientific journal (A2)) - The neural substrates of risky rewards and losses in healthy volunteers and patient groups: A PET imaging study (2022)
- Psychological Medicine
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Using brain lesions to inform connectomic DBS (2022) Connectomic deep brain stimulation Joutsa Juho, Fox Michael D.
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Cerebral grey matter density is associated with neuroreceptor and neurotransporter availability: A combined PET and MRI study (2021)
- NeuroImage
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Diagnostic accuracy of glabellar tap sign for Parkinson's disease (2021)
- Journal of Neural Transmission
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Dopamine transporter binding in symptomatic controls and healthy volunteers: Considerations for neuroimaging trials (2021)
- NeuroImage: Clinical
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - ‘Expedited Interhemispheric Inhibition’: A Simple Method to Collect Additional IHI Data in the Same Amount of Time (2021)
- Brain Topography
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Lesions causing hallucinations localize to one common brain network (2021)
- Molecular Psychiatry
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Reappearance of Symptoms after GPi-DBS Discontinuation in Cervical Dystonia (2021)
- Movement Disorders Clinical Practice
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Screening Instruments and Prevalence of Impulse Control Disorders (2021)
- Movement Disorders Clinical Practice
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Sex correction improves the accuracy of clinical dopamine transporter imaging (2021)
- EJNMMI Research
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))