Changing Brain Group
University of Jyväskylä
Santtu Seipäjärvi
PhD candidate
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Research interests:
Physical exercise
Fatigue
Brain
Autonomic nervous system
Stress
A Bit About Me
I have previously worked with topics related acute exercise-induced fatigue in the central nervous system and muscles. These topics have covered different aspects of fatigue trying to reveal whether acute drop in sports performance is related to factors in the brain, spinal cord, muscles or proprioceptive feedback. I have also done research related to wearable technology and its use in monitoring wellbeing. More specifically studying how physical or psychological stress affect the functioning of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and how it is measured with heart rate variability.
In my PhD I’m trying clarify how acute physical exercise affects brain activity measured with EEG/MEG. I am also interested how these brain activity measures relate to subjective feelings of mood/arousal and the functioning of ANS. In other words, I’m trying to clarify whether brain activity can provide information of the state of the individual in a psychological and/or physiological context.
Publications
Seipäjärvi, S. M., Tuomola, A., Juurakko, J., Rottensteiner, M., Rissanen, A.-P. E., Kurkela, J. L. O., Kujala, U. M., Laukkanen, J. A., & Wikgren, J. (2022). Measuring psychosocial stress with heart rate variability-based methods in different health and age groups. Physiological Measurement, 43(5), 055002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6579/ac6b7c
Salmio A, Rissanen AE, Kurkela JLO, Rottensteiner M, Seipäjärvi S, Juurakko J, Kujala UM, Laukkanen JA, Wikgren J. Cardiorespiratory fitness is linked with heart rate variability during stress in "at-risk" adults. J Sports Med Phys Fitness. 2024 Jan 11. doi: 10.23736/S0022-4707.23.15373-4. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38213267.
Mujunen, T., Seipäjärvi, S., Nurminen, M., Parviainen, T., & Piitulainen, H. (2022). Reproducibility of evoked and induced MEG responses to proprioceptive stimulation of the ankle joint. Neuroimage: Reports, 2(3), Article 100110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynirp.2022.100110
Nuuttila, O.-P., Seipäjärvi, S., Kyröläinen, H., & Nummela, A. (2022). Reliability and Sensitivity of Nocturnal Heart Rate and Heart-Rate Variability in Monitoring Individual Responses to Training Load. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 17(8), 1296-1303. https://doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2022-0145
Nuuttila, O-P., Nummela, A., Häkkinen, K., Seipäjärvi, S. & Kyröläinen, H. 2021. Monitoring Training and Recovery during a Period of Increased Intensity or Volume in Recreational Endurance Athletes. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (5), 2401.
Piitulainen, H., Seipäjärvi, S., Avela, J., Parviainen, T. & Walker, S. 2018. Cortical proprioceptive processing is altered by aging. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 10: 147.