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Andre
Sourander
Professor, Child Psychiatry
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Areas of expertise
Child psychiatry
adolescent psychiatry
epidemiology
intervention studies
implementation studies
service-use
Biography
Professor of Child Psychiatry at the University of Turku and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University. The focus of his work for the last 30 years has been to identify early psychosocial and biological risk factors for the causes of mental health disturbances, as well as to find keys to the development of selective interventions focused on children at risk.
Teaching
Dr. Sourander is responsible for teaching medical students and residents at the Department of Child Psychiatry. He has been the Primary Supervisor of 19 finalized thesis. He is the Primary Supervisor of 6 post-doc researchers and 9 PhD /Dr Med Sc students.
Publications
Elevated Maternal C-Reactive Protein and Increased Risk of Schizophrenia in a National Birth Cohort (2014)
American Journal of Psychiatry
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Voimaperheet – uusi interventio lasten käytösongelmiin (2014)
Haaste
(Artikkeli ammattilehdessä tai kirjoitus ammatillisessa blogissa (D1))
The impact of an educational mental health intervention on adolescents' perceptions of mental illness. (2014)
Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Perinatal factors and the risk of bipolar disorder in Finland (2014)
Journal of Affective Disorders
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
A nationwide register study of the characteristics, incidence and validity of diagnosed Tourette syndrome and other tic disorders (2014)
Acta Paediatrica
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Specialized Service Use for Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Disorders by Age 14 in Finland (2014)
Psychiatric Services
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Obstetric risk factors and autism spectrum disorders in Finland (2014)
Journal of Pediatrics
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Distinct Variants of Extreme Psychopathic Individuals in Society at Large – Evidence from a Population-Based Sample. (2014)
Evidence from a Population-Based Sample.
Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Variation by Diagnostic Subtype in Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders Associated with Maternal Parity among Finnish Births. (2014)
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Do headache and abdominal pain in childhood predict suicides and severe suicide attempts? Finnish nationwide 1981 birth cohort study (2014)
Child Psychiatry and Human Development
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))