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According to a national register study comparing Finnish birth cohorts from 1987 and 1997, an increasing number of adolescents receive a psychiatric or neurodevelopmental diagnosis. The number of diagnosed adolescents increased especially for girls in the younger cohort. The results of the study conducted by the University of Turku and the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) were published in the Lancet Psychiatry journal.

Scientists have been familiar with Finnish landforms for decades. Now, however, researchers from the University of Turku have discovered a new landform previously unknown to science with the aid of laser technology. After the initial discovery in Finland, similar forms have also been found in Sweden.

Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku has established a Laboratory of Business Disruption Research in order to research and develop management and realisation models for business disruptions. The partners of the Laboratory are Aller Media Finland, Bayer Nordic SE, IBM Finland, OP Financial Group, PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy), Rolls-Royce Oy Ab and Valmet Automotive Inc.

Historically, grandmothers have been important to their grandchildren, and the help provided by grandmothers has increased grandchild survival during the times of high child mortality. However, there have been signs that in many populations, the impact of maternal grandmothers and paternal grandmothers on their grandchildren has been different. A recent study shows that X-chromosome relatedness between grandmothers and their grandchildren did not affect grandchild survival in the 18th and 19th century Finland.

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Turku receives a donation of €3 million for the mathematical modelling of complex systems. The donation supports long-term top research in mathematics significantly and enables new, multidisciplinary openings.

The new Master’s Degree Programme provides the students with a strong basis to work as a human neuroscience expert and a wide skill set to conduct research and handle issues related to human brain and behaviour.

​Senior Researcher Teemu Rinne

Drug development and diagnostics is a joint thematic research collaboration between the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University. Now, the Universities are launching a new website, drugdevelopment.fi, which presents their expertise in drug development and diagnostics. In addition, the research field is strengthened with five new assistant professor recruitments.

Eleven faculty positions starting in August 2018 are open in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Turku. The positions are at the level of Assistant or Associate Professor (tenure track), or Full Professor (permanent position). The University invests in future technologies by taking AI expertise to a new level.

The tradition of reading the Declaration of Christmas Peace in Turku has continued almost uninterrupted since the 1300s. The declaration has been read from the balcony of the Brinkkala building since 1886. The current form of the declaration dates back to 1903. The Finnish Christmas Celebrations feature explores Finnish traditions and customs.

​Protocol Services Manager Mika Akkanen declared the Christmas peace in 2016.

Spruces were objects of worship for pre-Christian Finns and the importance of the trees transitioned into Christmas celebration through Christmas trees. The Christmas tree at Turku Cathedral, among many other public Christmas trees, holds a great importance in modern Christmas time. The Finnish Christmas Celebrations feature explores Finnish traditions and customs.

​Each year, many people attend the annual event of lighting up the tree’s lights.