List of works by Ilona Merikanto

ADHD symptoms are associated with decreased activity of fast sleep spindles and poorer procedural overnight learning during adolescence

scientific article published on 12 December 2018

Advanced phases and reduced amplitudes are suggested to characterize the daily rest-activity cycles in depressed adolescent boys

scientific article published on 08 June 2017

Associations of chronotype and sleep with cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes

scientific article published on 2 January 2013

Associations of common chronic non-communicable diseases and medical conditions with sleep-related problems in a population-based health examination study

scientific article published on July 2016

Associations of common noncommunicable medical conditions and chronic diseases with chronotype in a population-based health examination study

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Autistic Traits Are Associated With Decreased Activity of Fast Sleep Spindles During Adolescence

scientific article published on 15 March 2019

Autistic traits and sleep in typically developing adolescents

scientific article published on 29 October 2018

Behavioral trait of morningness-eveningness in association with articular and spinal diseases in a population

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Bidirectional Relationship of Sleep with Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties: A Five-year Follow-up of Finnish Adolescents

scientific article published on 21 February 2020

Circadian clock disruptions and the risk of cancer

scientific article published on 16 October 2012

Circadian preference and sleep timing from childhood to adolescence in relation to genetic variants from a genome-wide association study

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Circadian preference links to depression in general adult population

scientific article published on September 2015

Circadian preference towards morningness is associated with lower slow sleep spindle amplitude and intensity in adolescents.

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Development of Late Circadian Preference: Sleep Timing From Childhood to Late Adolescence

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Evening chronotypes have the increased odds for bronchial asthma and nocturnal asthma

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Evening types are prone to depression

scientific article published on 20 May 2013

Eveningness as a risk for behavioral problems in late adolescence

scientific article published on 5 January 2017

Eveningness associates with smoking and sleep problems among pregnant women.

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Eveningness has the increased odds for spinal diseases but the decreased odds for articular diseases with prospective hospital treatments

Eveningness relates to burnout and seasonal sleep and mood problems among young adults

scientific article published on 27 June 2015

Evidence for a relationship between chronotype and reproductive function in women

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Genetic risk factors for schizophrenia associate with sleep spindle activity in healthy adolescents

scientific article published on 29 August 2018

Higher sleep spindle activity is associated with fewer false memories in adolescent girls

scientific article published on 13 December 2018

Influence of seasonal variation in mood and behavior on cognitive test performance among young adults

scientific article published on 30 November 2011

Invasion ability and disease dynamics of environmentally growing opportunistic pathogens under outside-host competition

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Late bedtimes weaken school performance and predispose adolescents to health hazards

scientific article published on 11 August 2013

Outside-host growth of pathogens attenuates epidemiological outbreaks

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Outside-host phage therapy as a biological control against environmental infectious diseases.

scientific article published on 8 June 2018

Polygenic impact of morningness on the overnight dynamics of sleep spindle amplitude

scientific article published on 17 January 2020

REM sleep fragmentation associated with depressive symptoms and genetic risk for depression in a community-based sample of adolescents

scientific article published on 13 November 2018

Relation of chronotype to sleep complaints in the general Finnish population

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Schizotypal traits are associated with sleep spindles and rapid eye movement in adolescence

scientific article published on 14 April 2018

Seasonal variations in mood and behavior associate with common chronic diseases and symptoms in a population-based study

scientific article published on 17 February 2016

Seasonality, morningness-eveningness, and sleep in common non - communicable medical conditions and chronic diseases in a population

Winter is coming: nightmares and sleep problems during seasonal affective disorder

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