Jetro Tuulari
M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor. Principal Investigator of FinnBrain Neuroimaging Lab, Head of Neuroimaging, InterLearn
Turku Collegium for science and medicine jjtuul@utu.fi +358 29 450 2864 +358 40 828 3978 Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku : 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 Adjunct professorship 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 have had seminal role in the launch of Human Neuroscience Master's Programme at the Turku Brain and Mind Center, where my teaching activities will continue as the leading coordinator of courses on neuroimaging methods.
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- Associations between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and mean diffusivity of the hippocampus and amygdala in infants (2025)
- International Journal of Obesity
- Exposure to childhood maltreatment is associated with specific epigenetic patterns in sperm (2025)
- Molecular Psychiatry
- Gestational Duration and Postnatal Age-Related Changes in Aperiodic and Periodic Parameters in Neonatal and Toddler Electroencephalogram (EEG) (2025)
- Human Brain Mapping
- Measuring adverse childhood experiences by interviewing children at 9 and 10 years of age : Prevalence, concordance with mother-reports, posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, and subjective experience of being asked about adverse childhood experiences in FinnBrain Birth cohort study (2025)
- Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
- Sex-specific associations between maternal prenatal inflammation and offspring cortical morphology in youth: A harmonised study across four birth cohorts (2025)
- Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
- The FinnBrain multimodal neonatal template and atlas collection (2025)
- Communications Biology
- Associations between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and infant striatal mean diffusivity (2024)
- BMC Medicine
- Associations Between Prenatal Exposure to Maternal Diabetes and Obesity and Newborn Subcortical Volumes (2024)
- Biological Psychiatry
- Implementing ABCD study ® MRI sequences for multi-site cohort studies: practical guide to necessary steps, preprocessing methods, and challenges (2024)
- MethodsX
Linnea; Saukko, Ekaterina; Sainio, Teija; Peuna, Arttu; Korja, Riikka; Aro, Mikko; Leppänen, Paavo H.T.; Tuulari, Jetro J.; Merisaari, Harri - Maternal prenatal depressive symptoms and child brain responses to affective touch at two years of age (2024)
- Journal of Affective Disorders
- Maternal prenatal distress exposure negatively associates with the stability of neonatal frontoparietal network (2024)
- Stress
- Negative associations between maternal prenatal hair cortisol and child socioemotional problems (2024)
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
- Neonatal brain dynamic functional connectivity in term and preterm infants and its association with early childhood neurodevelopment (2024)
- Nature Communications
- sFlt-1 Impairs Neurite Growth and Neuronal Differentiation in SH-SY5Y Cells and Human Neurons (2024)
- Bioscience Reports
- Simulated ischaemia/reperfusion impairs trophoblast function through divergent oxidative stress- and MMP-9-dependent mechanisms (2024)
- Bioscience Reports
- The Untapped Potential of Dimension Reduction in Neuroimaging: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Multimodal Analysis of Long COVID Fatigue (2024)
- Brain Sciences
- 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
- 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
- Attention Biases for Emotional Facial Expressions During a Free Viewing Task Increase Between 2.5 and 5 Years of Age (2023)
- Developmental Psychology
- Childhood maltreatment, trait resilience and prenatal distress among expecting mothers and fathers in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2023)
- Journal of Affective Disorders
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