Affective and non-affective touch evoke differential brain responses in 2-month-old infants

E Jonsson, Kalle Kotilahti, Juha Heiskala, +10

NeuroImage

Differential Brain ResponsesNon-affective TouchDevelopmental Cognitive NeuroscienceAffective NeuroscienceMotor Control +24

Excitation threshold of the motor cortex estimated with transcranial magnetic stimulation electroencephalography

Soile Komssi, Petri Savolainen, Juha Heiskala, +1

Neuroreport

Significance of background optical properties, time-resolved information and optode arrangement in diffuse optical imaging of term neonates

Juha Heiskala, Petri Hiltunen, Ilkka Nissilä

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Modeling anisotropic light propagation in a realistic model of the human head

Juha Heiskala, Ilkka Nissilä, Tuomas Neuvonen, +2

Applied Optics

Tissue AnisotropyMonte Carlo ModelRealistic RenderingEngineeringAnisotropic Light Propagation +20

Probabilistic atlas can improve reconstruction from optical imaging of the neonatal brain

Juha Heiskala, Mika Pollari, Marjo Metsäranta, +2

Optics Express

Image ReconstructionEngineeringDiffuse Optical ImagingVisible Red LightBrain Mapping +19

Relationship between maternal pregnancy-related anxiety and infant brain responses to emotional speech – a pilot study

Ambika Maria, Ilkka Nissilä, Shashank Shekhar, +7

Journal of Affective Disorders

Hemodynamic responses to emotional speech in two-month-old infants imaged using diffuse optical tomography

Shashank Shekhar, Ambika Maria, Kalle Kotilahti, +7

Scientific Reports

Approximation error method can reduce artifacts due to scalp blood flow in optical brain activation imaging

Juha Heiskala, Ville Kolehmainen, Tanja Tarvainen, +2

Journal of Biomedical Optics

EngineeringOptical AbsorptionBrain MappingBlood FlowCognitive Electrophysiology +20

Effect of task-related extracerebral circulation on diffuse optical tomography: experimental data and simulations on the forehead

Tiina Näsi, Hanna Mäki, Petri Hiltunen, +4

Biomedical Optics Express

Brain MappingBrain CirculationSocial SciencesVerbal-fluency TaskExperimental Data +17

Significance of tissue anisotropy in optical tomography of the infant brain

Juha Heiskala, Tuomas Neuvonen, P. Ellen Grant, +1

Applied Optics

Tissue AnisotropyEngineeringPhoton MigrationBiomedical EngineeringInfant Brain +16