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
Multi-center nationwide study on pediatric psychiatric inpatients 2000-2018: length of stay, recurrent hospitalization, functioning level, suicidality, violence and diagnostic profiles (2021)
European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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Parental age and risk of depression: A nationwide, population-based case-control study (2021)
Journal of Affective Disorders
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A biomarker-based study of prenatal smoking exposure and autism in a Finnish national birth cohort (2021)
Autism Research
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Relative age and specific learning disorder diagnoses: A Finnish population-based cohort study (2021)
JCPP Advances
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Digital mental health literacy-program for the first-year medical students' wellbeing: a one group quasi-experimental study (2021)
BMC Medical Education
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Psychosocial Difficulties and Help-Seeking Behaviors in Singapore Adolescents Involved in Cyberbullying (2021)
Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
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Maternal serum Vitamin B12 and offspring attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (2021)
European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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Maternal Vitamin D Levels During Pregnancy and Offspring Autism Spectrum Disorder (2021)
Biological Psychiatry
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Maternal Vitamin D Levels and the Risk of Offspring Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (2021)
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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Familial confounding affected the associations between maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring speech and language, scholastic and coordination disorders (2021)
Acta Paediatrica
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