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A new imaging study by the Turku PET Centre in Finland showed that listening to favorite music affects the function of the brain’s opioid system.

Students graduating this spring from the Degree Programme in Biomedicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Turku will present their Bachelor’s theses at the Terveydeksi - New Discoveries 2025! thesis seminar. In addition, students from the Drug Discovery and Development and Biomedical Imaging tracks of the Biomedical Sciences Master's programme and students from the Human Neuroscience Master's programme will present their Master's theses at the seminar. Some of the Biomedical Imaging students are from Åbo Akademi University.

Senior Researcher Pekka Postila from the University of Turku and InFLAMES Flagship has been awarded  €120,000 Investigator Award from the California-based SynGAP Research Fund to investigate the effects of missense mutations on the SynGAP1 protein. Additionally, Doctoral Researcher Aliaa E. Ali has received full two-year PhD funding from the Finnish Cultural Foundation for her work on SynGAP1 modeling.

A study conducted at the Food Sciences unit of the University of Turku showed that different processing methods significantly affect the biochemical composition of plant-based foods. Current food classification systems do not sufficiently acknowledge the biochemical composition of the product.

Jari Metsämuuronen and Jake McMullen have been appointed as Professors of Learning Analytics at the University of Turku’s Research Institute for Learning Analytics, starting from February 1, 2025. These new professorships will focus on digital learning environments and further strengthen the University of Turku’s leading position in the field of learning analytics.

A new study by the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital found that a significant proportion of Parkinson's disease diagnoses are later corrected. Up to one in six diagnoses changed after ten years of follow-up, and the majority of new diagnoses were made within two years of the original diagnosis. 

A group of 29 international experts says that simultaneous screening for hypertension and heart arrhythmia could prevent thousands of strokes.

By using leaf skeletons as templates, researchers harnessed nature's intrinsic hierarchical fractal structures to improve the performance of flexible electronic devices. Wearable sensors and electronic skins are examples of flexible electronics.  

A new study from the Research Centre for Child Psychiatry at the University of Turku in Finland screened school-age children for anxiety and examined the efficacy of the Master Your Worries programme developed for treating anxiety among children. The study found that the programme reduced children's symptoms of generalised anxiety, social anxiety, and separation anxiety. The study also found that lighter, fully digital study material can reduce anxiety symptoms in children.

Researchers at the University of Turku, Finland, investigated how to use bio-based materials to produce effective UV protection films for solar cells. The study was the first to compare how the properties of different bio-based UV filters change over time.