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Jari Tiihonen (jari.tiihonen@uef.fi)

Office at Niuvanniemi Hospital (Niuvankuja 65, FI-70240 Kuopio, Finland)

Present positions
• Professor, University of Eastern Finland, School of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
• Professor, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Stockholm, Sweden

Major research interests
• Psychiatry, psychopharmacology, functional brain imaging, autoradiography studies on dopamine and serotonin receptors and transporters in the human brain; epidemiology, genetics and neurobiology of substance dependence; violent and suicidal behavior

Kasper Katisko (kasper.katisko@uef.fi)

Currently, I work as a medical doctor (psychiatry resident, part-time) at Oulu University Hospital and as a post-doc researcher in the University of Eastern Finland, Department of Neurology, FinFTD network. My research interests focus especially on new blood based biomarkers in frontotemporal dementia and other neurodegenerative / psychiatric disorders. I also supervise several PhD thesis projects focusing on different aspects of frontotemporal dementia.