Saara Nolvi
Ph.D (FT), adjunct professor (dos.)
FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study saara.nolvi@utu.fi Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku Teutori 2. krs Office: Med A307/Pub 318 Contact requests by e-mail. ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4959-1473 |
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
Pronouns: she/hers
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.
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)
- An opportunity to increase collaborative science in fetal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging (2022)
- Biological Psychiatry
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Associations between observed and reported infant negative affectivity, fear and self-regulation, and early communicative development-Evidence from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2022)
- Infancy
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Associations between temperament dimensions and dental anxiety in parents of the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2022)
- European Journal of Oral Sciences
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Early pathways of maternal mentalization: Associations with child development in the FinnBrain birth cohort study (2022)
- Frontiers in Psychology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Feasibility of FreeSurfer Processing for T1-Weighted Brain Images of 5-Year-Olds: Semiautomated Protocol of FinnBrain Neuroimaging Lab (2022)
- Frontiers in Neuroscience
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Maternal sensitivity at the age of 8 months associates with local connectivity of the medial prefrontal cortex in children at 5 years of age (2022)
- Frontiers in Neuroscience
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Oxytocin receptor genotype moderates the association between maternal prenatal stress and infant early self-regulation (2022)
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Prenatal Stress and the Developing Brain: Postnatal Environments Promoting Resilience (2022)
- Biological Psychiatry
(Refereed review article in scientific journal (A2)) - Subcortical and hippocampal brain segmentation in 5-year-old children: Validation of FSL-FIRST and FreeSurfer against manual segmentation (2022)
- European Journal of Neuroscience
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - The behavioral immune system and vaccination intentions during the coronavirus pandemic (2022)
- Personality and Individual Differences
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - The Connection and Development of Unpredictability and Sensitivity in Maternal Care Across Early Childhood (2022)
- Frontiers in Psychology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - The role of alexithymia and perceived stress in mental health responses to COVID-19: A conditional process model (2022)
- Journal of Affective Disorders
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - The Stability of Early Developing Attentional Bias for Faces and Fear From 8 to 30 and 60 Months in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2022)
- Developmental Psychology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Unpredictable maternal sensory signals in caregiving behavior are associated with child effortful control (2022)
- PLoS ONE
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Varhaisten kielellisten taitojen ja temperamentin suhde vanhemman raportoimaan lapsen änkytykseen FinnBrain-syntymäkohortissa (2022)
- Puheen ja kielen tutkimuksen yhdistyksen julkaisuja
(Refereed article in conference proceedings (A4)) - Associations between maternal socioeconomic, psychosocial and seasonal factors, infant characteristics and human milk cortisol concentrations (2021)
- American Journal of Human Biology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - A systematic review of MRI studies of language development from birth to 2 years of age (2021)
- Developmental Neurobiology
(Refereed review article in scientific journal (A2)) - Children's diurnal cortisol output and temperament in two different childcare settings at 2 and 3.5 years of age (2021)
- Developmental Psychobiology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - DCC Gene network in the prefrontal cortex is associated with total brain volume in childhood (2021)
- Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Early development of negative and positive affect: Implications for ADHD symptomatology across three birth cohorts (2021)
- Development and Psychopathology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))