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.
- Imaging affective and non-affective touch processing in two-year-old children (2022)
- NeuroImage
- 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
- Prenatal and early-life environmental factors, family demographics and cortical brain anatomy in 5-year-olds: an MRI study from FinnBrain Birth Cohort (2022)
- Brain Imaging and Behavior
- Sex-specific associations between maternal pregnancy-specific anxiety and newborn amygdalar volumes-preliminary findings from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2022)
- Stress
- Stressin vaikutus aivoihin ja sairastuvuuteen eri ikäkausina (2022)
- Duodecim
- Subcortical and hippocampal brain segmentation in 5-year-old children: Validation of FSL-FIRST and FreeSurfer against manual segmentation (2022)
- European Journal of Neuroscience
- Test-retest reliability of diffusion tensor imaging scalars in 5-year-olds (2022)
- Human Brain Mapping
- Associations Between Brain Gray Matter Volumes and Adipose Tissue Metabolism in Healthy Adults (2021)
- Obesity
- A systematic review of MRI studies of language development from birth to 2 years of age (2021)
- Developmental Neurobiology
- A variation in the infant oxytocin receptor gene modulates infant hippocampal volumes in association with sex and prenatal maternal anxiety (2021)
- Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
- Infant and Child MRI: A Review of Scanning Procedures (2021)
- Frontiers in Neuroscience
- Maternal pre-pregnancy BMI associates with neonate local and distal functional connectivity of the left superior frontal gyrus (2021)
- Scientific Reports
- Neonatal Amygdala Volumes and the Development of Self-Regulation from Early Infancy to Toddlerhood (2021)
- Neuropsychology
- Prevalence and evolution of snoring and the associated factors in two-year-old children (2021)
- Sleep Medicine
- Association of Cumulative Paternal Early Life Stress With White Matter Maturation in Newborns (2020)
- JAMA Network Open
- Maternal sleep quality during pregnancy is associated with neonatal auditory ERPs (2020)
- Scientific Reports
- Newborn amygdalar volumes are associated with maternal prenatal psychological distress in a sex-dependent way (2020)
- NeuroImage: Clinical
- Newborn left amygdala volume associates with attention disengagement from fearful faces at eight months (2020)
- Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
- Newborn white matter microstructure moderates the association between maternal postpartum depressive symptoms and infant negative reactivity (2020)
- Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
- Partial Support for an Interaction Between a Polygenic Risk Score for Major Depressive Disorder and Prenatal Maternal Depressive Symptoms on Infant Right Amygdalar Volumes (2020)
- Cerebral Cortex