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Overview

Juho Joutsa is affiliated with Turku University Hospital in Finland and focuses on medical and neuroscience research. Their work primarily contributes to neurology, with extensive publications in subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, radiology, and clinical psychology.

Their research covers a diverse range of topics related to neurological disorders and treatments. Main topics include Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, functional brain connectivity studies, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, botulinum toxin and related neurological disorders, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, and neuroscience and neuropharmacology research.

Joutsa has published notably in several prominent venues, including:

  • Movement Disorders
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Brain Stimulation
  • Neurology
  • Movement Disorders Clinical Practice

Some of Joutsa's recent papers include:

  • Brain lesions disrupting addiction map to a common human brain circuit, 2022, Nature Medicine
  • Lowered endogenous mu-opioid receptor availability in subclinical depression and anxiety, 2020, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Mapping Lesion-Related Epilepsy to a Human Brain Network, 2023, JAMA Neurology
  • Lesion network mapping for symptom localization: recent developments and future directions, 2022, Current Opinion in Neurology
  • Clinical and Structural Findings in Patients With Lesion-Induced Dystonia, 2022, Neurology

Frequent coauthors include Valtteri Kaasinen, Michael Fox, Daniel T. Corp, Elina Jaakkola, and Emma A. Honkanen. These collaborations reflect a network engaged in various aspects of neurological and neuroimaging research.

Their main fields of study emphasize medicine and neuroscience, with 131 and 85 publications respectively. Within these fields, neurology accounts for the largest portion of publications, with a total of 95, followed by cognitive neuroscience with 40, and cellular and molecular neuroscience with 33 publications.

Joutsa's research contributes to understanding complex brain networks and neurological conditions through approaches such as lesion network mapping and functional connectivity analysis. This work potentially informs clinical strategies for disorders involving brain lesions, movement disorders, and neurodegenerative diseases.

Best Publications

  • Mesolimbic dopamine release is linked to symptom severity in pathological gambling.

    Juho Joutsa;Juho Joutsa;Jarkko Johansson;Solja Niemelä;Antti Ollikainen

  • Brain lesions disrupting addiction map to a common human brain circuit

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  • A Human Depression Circuit Derived From Focal Brain Lesions.

    Jaya L. Padmanabhan;Danielle Cooke;Juho Joutsa;Shan H. Siddiqi

  • Network localization of cervical dystonia based on causal brain lesions.

    Daniel T Corp;Daniel T Corp;Juho Joutsa;R Ryan Darby;R Ryan Darby;Cathérine C S Delnooz

  • Diagnostic accuracy of parkinsonism syndromes by general neurologists.

    Juho Joutsa;Maria Gardberg;Matias Röyttä;Valtteri Kaasinen

  • Lesion network localization of free will.

    R Ryan Darby;R Ryan Darby;Juho Joutsa;Matthew J Burke;Michael D Fox

  • Localizing parkinsonism based on focal brain lesions.

    Juho Joutsa;Andreas Horn;Joey Hsu;Joey Hsu;Michael D Fox;Michael D Fox

  • Impulse control disorders and depression in Finnish patients with Parkinson's disease.

    Juho Joutsa;Juho Joutsa;Kirsti Martikainen;Tero Vahlberg;Valerie Voon

  • Network localization of heterogeneous neuroimaging findings

    R Ryan Darby;R Ryan Darby;R Ryan Darby;Juho Joutsa;Michael D Fox;Michael D Fox

  • Dopamine and Opioid Neurotransmission in Behavioral Addictions: A Comparative PET Study in Pathological Gambling and Binge Eating.

    Joonas Majuri;Joonas Majuri;Juho Joutsa;Juho Joutsa;Jarkko Johansson;Valerie Voon

  • Long-Term Test–Retest Reliability of Striatal and Extrastriatal Dopamine D2/3 Receptor Binding: Study with [11C]Raclopride and High-Resolution PET

    Kati Alakurtti;Jarkko J Johansson;Juho Joutsa;Matti Laine

  • Mapping Lesion-Related Epilepsy to a Human Brain Network

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  • Lesions causing hallucinations localize to one common brain network.

    Na Young Kim;Na Young Kim;Joey Hsu;Daniel Talmasov;Daniel Talmasov;Juho Joutsa;Juho Joutsa;Juho Joutsa

  • Dopamine transporter imaging does not predict the number of nigral neurons in Parkinson disease

    Laura Saari;Katri Kivinen;Maria Gardberg;Juho Joutsa

  • Extensive abnormality of brain white matter integrity in pathological gambling

    Juho Joutsa;Jani Saunavaara;Riitta Parkkola;Solja Niemelä

  • Serotonin transporter density in binge eating disorder and pathological gambling: A PET study with [11C]MADAM.

    Joonas Majuri;Joonas Majuri;Juho Joutsa;Jarkko Johansson;Valerie Voon

  • Dopaminergic function and intertemporal choice

    J Joutsa;V Voon;J Johansson;S Niemelä

  • Childhood-onset epilepsy five decades later. A prospective population-based cohort study

    Matti Sillanpää;Anu Anttinen;Juha O. Rinne;Juho Joutsa

  • Positron emission tomography imaging of the 18-kDa translocator protein (TSPO) with [18F]FEMPA in Alzheimer’s disease patients and control subjects

    Andrea Varrone;Vesa Oikonen;Anton Forsberg;Juho Joutsa

  • Effects of aging and gender on striatal and extrastriatal [123I]FP-CIT binding in Parkinson's disease.

    Valtteri Kaasinen;Juho Joutsa;Tommi Noponen;Jarkko Johansson

  • Increased medial orbitofrontal [18F]fluorodopa uptake in Parkinsonian impulse control disorders.

    Juho Joutsa;Kirsti Martikainen;Solja Niemelä;Jarkko Johansson

  • Serotonin transporter density in binge eating disorder and pathological gambling: A PET study with [C-11]MADAM

    Joonas Majuri;Juho Joutsa;Jarkko Johansson;Valerie Voon

Frequent Co-Authors

Valtteri Kaasinen
Valtteri Kaasinen Turku University Hospital
Juha O. Rinne
Juha O. Rinne Turku University Hospital
Michael D. Fox
Michael D. Fox Harvard University
Riitta Parkkola
Riitta Parkkola Turku University Hospital
Valerie Voon
Valerie Voon University of Cambridge
Lauri Nummenmaa
Lauri Nummenmaa Turku University Hospital
Bruce P. Hermann
Bruce P. Hermann University of Wisconsin–Madison
Matti Laine
Matti Laine Åbo Akademi University
Jussi Hirvonen
Jussi Hirvonen Turku University Hospital
Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Alvaro Pascual-Leone Harvard University

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