Frontiers in Neuroscience Seminar Series

• 15 May, 16:00, room E16003, BMC 

Invited speaker: Juho Joutsa, MD, PhD Professor of neurology, University of Turku, Finland. 

Lecture title: Post-stroke movement disorders

Lecture host: Per Odin

About the speaker:
Prof. Joutsa is a movement disorder neurologist with special interest in lesion-induced symptoms andneuromodulation (rTMS, DBS, MRgFUS). He completed his postdoctoral research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and worked as an associate professor of neuroimaging at University of Turku before starting in his current positions. Prof. Joutsa leads a 30-person research lab (Brain Stimulation and Neuroimaging laboratory, TurkuBrainlab). Despite his young age, he has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers of which several in the leading journals of the field. Prof. Joutsa is the youngest professor of neurology in Finland, he has received multiple recognitions and awards for his research work, including being named among to 100 most influential people in medicine in Finland andreceiving a Young Investigator Award given biannually to only one scientist across all fields of medicine in Finland. Currently, Prof. Joutsa is the vice chair of the MDS post-stroke movement disorders (PSMD) study group and leads an international multicenter study on PSMDs.