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Overview

Riitta Parkkola is affiliated with Turku University Hospital in Finland and has a primary focus on medical research with an extensive publication record in the field of medicine. Their work spans various subfields including pediatrics, perinatology and child health, neurology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, cognitive neuroscience, and psychiatry and mental health.

The central topics of Parkkola's research include neonatal and fetal brain pathology, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, infant development and preterm care, functional brain connectivity studies, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, and dementia and cognitive impairment research.

Frequently collaborating with colleagues, Parkkola has coauthored numerous publications alongside researchers such as Jani Saunavaara, Jetro J. Tuulari, Linnéa Karlsson, Hasse Karlsson, and Tuire Lähdesmäki.

Parkkola's research articles are often published in peer-reviewed venues, with multiple contributions to journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Research Square (Research Square), Frontiers in Neuroscience, European Journal of Neuroscience, and Human Brain Mapping.

Recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Parkkola include:

  • Infant and Child MRI: A Review of Scanning Procedures, 2021, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Insulin Resistance Is Associated With Enhanced Brain Glucose Uptake During Euglycemic Hyperinsulinemia: A Large-Scale PET Cohort, 2021, Diabetes Care
  • Prevalence and Risk Factors of Incidental Findings in Brain MRIs of Healthy Neonates-The FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, 2020, Frontiers in Neurology
  • Newborn amygdalar volumes are associated with maternal prenatal psychological distress in a sex-dependent way, 2020, NeuroImage Clinical
  • Vocal Music Listening Enhances Poststroke Language Network Reorganization, 2021, eNeuro

Best Publications

  • Is emotional contagion special? An fMRI study on neural systems for affective and cognitive empathy.

    Lauri Nummenmaa;Jussi Hirvonen;Riitta Parkkola;Jari K. Hietanen

  • Magnetic resonance imaging of the discs and trunk muscles in patients with chronic low back pain and healthy control subjects

    R. Parkkola;U. Rytökoski;M. Kormano

  • Myocardial Triglyceride Content and Epicardial Fat Mass in Human Obesity: Relationship to Left Ventricular Function and Serum Free Fatty Acid Levels

    Mikko Kankaanpää;Hanna-Riikka Lehto;Jussi P Pärkkä;Markku Komu

  • PET amyloid ligand [11C]PIB uptake is increased in mild cognitive impairment.

    N. M. Kemppainen;S. Aalto;I. A. Wilson;K. Någren

  • Glucose uptake and perfusion in subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue during insulin stimulation in nonobese and obese humans.

    Kirsi A. Virtanen;Peter Lönnroth;Riitta Parkkola;Pauliina Peltoniemi

  • Noninvasive Diagnosis of Focal Hyperinsulinism of Infancy With [18F]-DOPA Positron Emission Tomography

    Timo Otonkoski;Kirsti Näntö-Salonen;Marko Seppänen;Riitta Veijola

  • Cognitive reserve hypothesis: Pittsburgh Compound B and fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in relation to education in mild Alzheimer's disease

    Nina M. Kemppainen;Sargo Aalto;Sargo Aalto;Mira Karrasch;Kjell Någren

  • Blunted metabolic responses to cold and insulin stimulation in brown adipose tissue of obese humans

    Janne Orava;Pirjo Nuutila;Pirjo Nuutila;Tommi Noponen;Riitta Parkkola

  • Voxel-based analysis of PET amyloid ligand [11C]PIB uptake in Alzheimer disease

    N. M. Kemppainen;S. Aalto;I. A. Wilson;K. Någren

  • Obesity Is Associated with Decreased μ-Opioid But Unaltered Dopamine D2 Receptor Availability in the Brain

    Henry K. Karlsson;Lauri Tuominen;Jetro J. Tuulari;Jussi Hirvonen

  • Impaired cognitive performance in Parkinson's disease is related to caudate dopaminergic hypofunction and hippocampal atrophy

    Pekka Jokinen;Anna Brück;Sargo Aalto;Sarita Forsback

  • Amyloid PET imaging in patients with mild cognitive impairment: a 2-year follow-up study.

    J Koivunen;N Scheinin;J R Virta;S Aalto

  • Automatic attention orienting by social and symbolic cues activates different neural networks: An fMRI study

    Jari K. Hietanen;Lauri Nummenmaa;Mikko J. Nyman;Riitta Parkkola

  • Fluorine -18 -L-dihydroxyphenylalanine (18F -DOPA) positron emission tomography as a tool to localize an insulinoma or β-cell hyperplasia in adult patients

    Saila Kauhanen;Marko Seppänen;Heikki Minn;Risto Gullichsen

  • Differential Effects of Rosiglitazone and Metformin on Adipose Tissue Distribution and Glucose Uptake in Type 2 Diabetic Subjects

    Kirsi A. Virtanen;Kirsti Hällsten;Riitta Parkkola;Tuula Janatuinen

  • S -Ketamine Anesthesia Increases Cerebral Blood Flow in Excess of the Metabolic Needs in Humans

    Jaakko W. Långsjö;Anu Maksimow;Elina Salmi;Kaike Kaisti

  • Cerebral magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasonography findings after neonatal hypoglycemia.

    Anne Kinnala;Hellevi Rikalainen;Helena Lapinleimu;Riitta Parkkola

  • Human brown adipose tissue [15O]O2 PET imaging in the presence and absence of cold stimulus

    Mueez u Din;Mueez u Din;Juho Raiko;Juho Raiko;Teemu Saari;Teemu Saari;Nobu Kudomi

  • Brain White Matter Expansion in Human Obesity and the Recovering Effect of Dieting

    Lauri T. Haltia;Antti Viljanen;Riitta Parkkola;Nina Kemppainen

  • In Vivo Detection of Diffuse Inflammation in Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Using PET Imaging and the Radioligand 11C-PK11195

    Eero Rissanen;Jouni Tuisku;Johanna Rokka;Teemu Paavilainen

  • Effect of Weight Loss on Liver Free Fatty Acid Uptake and Hepatic Insulin Resistance

    Antti P. M. Viljanen;Patricia Iozzo;Patricia Iozzo;Ronald Borra;Mikko Kankaanpää

Frequent Co-Authors

Pirjo Nuutila
Pirjo Nuutila Turku University Hospital
Juha O. Rinne
Juha O. Rinne Turku University Hospital
Juhani Knuuti
Juhani Knuuti Turku University Hospital
Valtteri Kaasinen
Valtteri Kaasinen Turku University Hospital
Juho Joutsa
Juho Joutsa Turku University Hospital
Kjell Någren
Kjell Någren Odense University Hospital
Miia Kivipelto
Miia Kivipelto University of Eastern Finland
Tapani Rönnemaa
Tapani Rönnemaa Turku University Hospital
Timo E. Strandberg
Timo E. Strandberg University of Helsinki
Hilkka Soininen
Hilkka Soininen University of Eastern Finland

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