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Jetro
Tuulari
Doctoral Researcher, Department of Clinical Medicine
Docent, Department of Clinical Medicine
Research Manager, Clinical Neurosciences
M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor. Principal Investigator of FinnBrain Neuroimaging Lab, Head of Neuroimaging, InterLearn
We study how early life exposures, genes and environment shape the brain structure, brain function and how these relate to health and wellbeing.

Contact

Kiinamyllynkatu 10
20520
Turku

Areas of expertise

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.

Biography

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.

Teaching

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. 

Publications

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Newborn white matter microstructure moderates the association between maternal postpartum depressive symptoms and infant negative reactivity (2020)

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Saara Nolvi, Jetro J Tuulari, Tuomas Lavonius, Noora M Scheinin, Satu J Lehtola, Maria Lavonius, Harri Merisaari, Jani Saunavaara, Riikka Korja, Eeva-Leena Kataja, Juho Pelto, Riitta Parkkola, Linnea Karlsson, Hasse Karlsson
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

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
Acosta H, Kantojärvi K, Hashempour N, Pelto J, Scheinin NM, Lehtola SJ, Lewis JD, Fonov VS, Collins DL, Evans A, Parkkola R, Lähdesmäki T, Saunavaara J, Karlsson L, Merisaari H, Karlsson H, Paunio T, Tuulari JJ
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Neural correlates of gentle skin stroking in early infancy (2019)

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Jetro J.Tuulari, Noora M.Scheinin, Satu Lehtola, Harri Merisaari, Jani Saunavaara, Riitta Parkkola, Isac Sehlstedt, Linnea Karlsson, Hasse Karlsson, Malin Björnsdotter
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

A Novel Approach for Manual Segmentation of the Amygdala and Hippocampus in Neonate MRI (2019)

Frontiers in Neuroscience
Niloofar Hashempour, Jetro J. Tuulari, Harri Merisaari, Kristian Lidauer, Iiris Luukkonen, Jani Saunavaara, Riitta Parkkola, Tuire Lähdesmäki, Satu J. Lehtola, Maria Keskinen, John D. Lewis, Noora M. Scheinin, Linnea Karlsson, Hasse Karlsson
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))