Jetro Tuulari
M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor (Docent)
Turku Collegium for science and medicine jjtuul@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1797-8000 |
Neuroscience, Brain development, Obesity, Pleasure in the brain, Eating, Exercise, Social touch, Neuroimaging, Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI, fMRI, dMRI), Positron emission tomography (PET). Connectomics, Whole brain modelling. Emerging expertise in population neuroscience.
We study how early life exposures, genes and environment shape the brain structure, brain function and how these relate to health and wellbeing.
After getting an M.D. degree in 2014, I defended my awarded PhD thesis on the brain changes of morbid obesity and weight loss surgery in 2015 and received Associate professorship (Title of Docent) in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2018. I am currently Principal Investigator of the FinnBrain Neuroimaging Lab and the work is related to solving the mysteries of the developing brain. I was the director of Turku Brain and Mind Center 2023 - 2025. As of May 2026 my research continues in the Auria Biobank, but I maintain close ties to UTU through FinnBrain and I take part as a senior consultant for InterLearn CoE, Right2Belong project, Turku Brain and Mind Center, and many other parties.
I am an enthusiastic techer and teaching development is close to my heard. I have taken part in multiple awarded pedagogical development projects relating to learning material development, student feedback, and peer-assisted learning. I have wide mentoring and tutoring expertise from undergraduate students to post doctoral fellows.
I have had seminal role in the launch of Human Neuroscience Master's Programme at the Turku Brain and Mind Center, and I served as the head of the programme 2023-2025.
- The Untapped Potential of Dimension Reduction in Neuroimaging: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Multimodal Analysis of Long COVID Fatigue (2024)
- Brain Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Understanding Resilience in Parents: Longitudinal Examination of Trait Resilience, Stressful Life Events, and Psychological Distress Symptoms-Insights From the FinnBrain Study (2024)
- Stress and Health
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Association of cumulative prenatal adversity with infant subcortical structure volumes and child problem behavior and its moderation by a coexpression polygenic risk score of the serotonin system (2023)
- Development and Psychopathology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Attention Biases for Emotional Facial Expressions During a Free Viewing Task Increase Between 2.5 and 5 Years of Age (2023)
- Developmental Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Childhood maltreatment, trait resilience and prenatal distress among expecting mothers and fathers in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2023)
- Journal of Affective Disorders
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Course of child social-emotional and sleep symptoms, parental distress and pandemic-related stressors during COVID-19 (2023)
- Development and Psychopathology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effect of number of diffusion encoding directions in neonatal diffusion tensor imaging using Tract-Based Spatial Statistical analysis (2023)
- European Journal of Neuroscience
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Improved utilization of frequency-domain data for optical tomographic imaging of the human brain (2023)
- Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Infants' sex affects neural responses to affective touch in early infancy (2023)
- Developmental Psychobiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index is associated with newborn offspring hypothalamic mean diffusivity: a prospective dual-cohort study (2023)
- BMC Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
