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:
Liesmäki O, Kungshamn J, Likitalo O, Ellis EG, Bellmunt-Gil A, Aaltonen J, Steinweg I, Myller EM, Roine S, Friedrich MU, Ylikotila P, Joutsa J. Localization and network connectivity of lesions causing limb ataxia in patients with stroke. Neurology 2024;103(6)
Theys C, Jaakkola E, Melzer TR, De Nil LF, Guenther FH, Cohen AL, Fox MD, Joutsa J. Localization of stuttering based on causal brain lesions. Brain 2024;147(6):2203-13.
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, 2024;95(4):300-8.
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.
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.
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.
Lead teacher in neurology, M.D. curriculum
- A generalized epilepsy network derived from brain abnormalities and deep brain stimulation (2025)
- Nature Communications
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Convergent mapping of a tremor treatment network (2025)
- Nature Communications
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Progression of Amyloid Accumulation in Late Adulthood Among People With Childhood-Onset Epilepsy (2025)
- Neurology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Remission of alcohol use disorder following traumatic brain injury with focal orbitofrontal cortex hemorrhage: case report and network mapping (2025)
- Communications medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Stroke Mimicking Thalamotomy in Primary Familial Brain Calcification (2025)
- Movement Disorders Clinical Practice
(B1 Other refereed article (e.g., editorial, letter, comment) in a scientific journal) - Bodily Maps of Symptoms and Emotions in Parkinson's Disease (2024)
- Movement Disorders
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Brain lesions causing parkinsonism versus seizures map to opposite brain networks (2024)
- Brain Communications
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Brain metabolic response to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation to lesion network in cervical dystonia (2024)
- Brain Stimulation
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Converging Evidence for Frontopolar Cortex as a Target for Neuromodulation in Addiction Treatment (2024)
- American Journal of Psychiatry
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Current opinions and practices in post-stroke movement disorders : Survey of movement disorders society members (2024)
- Journal of the Neurological Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Dietary Caffeine and Brain Dopaminergic Function in Parkinson Disease (2024)
- Annals of Neurology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Focal Brain Lesions Causing Acquired Amusia Map to a Common Brain Network (2024)
- Journal of Neuroscience
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Frontal white and gray matter abnormality in gambling disorder : A multimodal MRI study (2024)
- Journal of behavioral addictions
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - In Silico Models for Evaluating Observed Associations Between Rest Tremor and Striatal Binding (2024)
- Movement Disorders
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Localization and Network Connectivity of Lesions Causing Limb Ataxia in Patients With Stroke (2024)
- Neurology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Localization of stuttering based on causal brain lesions (2024)
- Brain
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Multimodal neuroimaging to characterize symptom-specific networks in movement disorders (2024)
- NPJ Parkinson's disease
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - No Efficacy with Noninvasive Brain Stimulation for Painful Legs and Moving Toes : A Case Report (2024)
- Case Reports in Neurology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Phonemic word fluency is related to temporal and striatal gray matter volume in healthy older adults (2024)
- Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Rest Tremor in Parkinson's Disease Is Associated with Ipsilateral Striatal Dopamine Transporter Binding (2024)
- Movement Disorders
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)