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List of works by Sami Pirkola

A Comparison of Mental Health Care Systems in Northern and Southern Europe: A Service Mapping Study

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A population-based association study of candidate genes for depression and sleep disturbance.

scientific article published in March 2010

Alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality among elderly in Finland

scientific article published on 25 September 2009

Alcohol consumption, abstaining, health utility, and quality of life--a general population survey in Finland

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Alcohol dependence in relation to burnout among the Finnish working population

scientific article published in October 2006

Alcohol-induced psychotic disorder and delirium in the general population

scientific article published on September 2010

An association analysis of circadian genes in anxiety disorders

scientific article published in February 2010

An association analysis of murine anxiety genes in humans implicates novel candidate genes for anxiety disorders

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An evaluation of the absolute and relative stability of alexithymia over 11years in a Finnish general population.

scientific article published on 15 February 2017

Antidepressant utilisation patterns and determinants of short-term and non-psychiatric use in the Finnish general adult population

scientific article published on 13 February 2008

Assessment of the neuropeptide S system in anxiety disorders

scientific article published in September 2010

Association of Income With the Incidence Rates of First Psychiatric Hospital Admissions in Finland, 1996-2014

scientific article published on 18 December 2019

Childhood Social Environment Questionnaire

article published in 2010

Childhood adversities are associated with shorter telomere length at adult age both in individuals with an anxiety disorder and controls

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Childhood adversities as risk factors for adult mental disorders: results from the Health 2000 study

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Childhood and current determinants of heavy drinking in early adulthood

scientific article published on 25 March 2008

Circadian clock gene polymorphisms in alcohol use disorders and alcohol consumption

scientific article published on 16 June 2010

Common mental disorders in young adults born late-preterm

scientific article published on 25 April 2016

Community mental-health services and suicide rate in Finland: a nationwide small-area analysis

scientific article published on 26 December 2008

Concordance between Composite International Diagnostic Interview and self-reports of depressive symptoms: a re-analysis.

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Contribution of adenosine related genes to the risk of depression with disturbed sleep

scientific article published on 13 April 2010

Corrigendum to "Prevalence and correlates of major depressive disorder and dysthymia in an eleven-year follow-up - Results from the Finnish Health 2011 Survey" [J. Affect. Disord. 173 (2015) 73-80].

scientific article published on 17 November 2016

Currently active and remitted alcohol dependence in a nationwide adult general population--results from the Finnish Health 2000 study

scientific article published on 21 February 2006

Cyclic time patterns of death from suicide in northern Finland

scientific article published in January 2004

DSM-IV mood-, anxiety- and alcohol use disorders and their comorbidity in the Finnish general population--results from the Health 2000 Study

scientific article published in January 2005

Decline in suicide mortality after psychiatric hospitalization for depression in Finland between 1991 and 2014.

scientific article published in February 2018

Depression and C-reactive protein: population-based Health 2000 Study

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Depressive symptoms, major depressive episodes and cognitive test performance-what is the role of physical activity?

scientific article published on 21 November 2012

Diagnostic conversion from unipolar depression tobipolar disorder, schizophrenia,or schizoaffective disorder:a nationwide prospective15-yearregister study on 43,495 inpatients

scientific article published on 08 May 2020

Distinctive use of newer and older antidepressants in major geographical areas: A nationally representative register-based study.

scientific article published on 3 January 2018

Do means matter?: Differences in characteristics of Finnish suicide completers using different methods

scientific article published in November 2003

Does primary care mental health resourcing affect the use and costs of secondary psychiatric services?

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Effectiveness of internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy in reducing sickness absence among young employees with depressive symptoms: study protocol for a large-scale pragmatic randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 05 November 2019

Employment Status Influences the Weekly Patterns of Suicide among Alcohol Misusers

scientific article published on 01 December 1997

Employment Status and Personal Income Before and After Onset of a Severe Mental Disorder: A Case-Control Study

scientific article published on 14 November 2019

Employment status, mental disorders and service use in the working age population.

scientific article published on February 2007

Excess Mortality in Patients with Severe Mental Disorders in 1996-2010 in Finland

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Experienced poor lighting contributes to the seasonal fluctuations in weight and appetite that relate to the metabolic syndrome

scientific article published on 07 June 2009

Factors behind a remarkable increase in adolescent psychiatric inpatient treatment between 1980 and 2010 – a nationwide register study

Five-year follow-up study of disability pension rates in first-onset schizophrenia with special focus on regional differences and mortality

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Five-year mortality of Finnish schizophrenia patients in the era of deinstitutionalization

scientific article published on 28 July 2008

General health and quality-of-life measures in active, recent, and comorbid mental disorders: a population-based health 2000 study

scientific article published on 23 August 2008

Geographic variation and sociodemographic characteristics of psychotic disorders in Finland

scientific article published on 18 September 2008

Growth after late-preterm birth and adult cognitive, academic, and mental health outcomes

scientific article published on 5 January 2017

Hazardous drinking: prevalence and associations in the Finnish general population

scientific article published on 8 July 2008

How size matters: exploring the association between quality of mental health services and catchment area size.

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Identifying Local and Centralized Mental Health Services-The Development of a New Categorizing Variable

Impact of psychiatric disorders on health-related quality of life: general population survey

scientific article published in April 2007

Incidence of hospitalised schizophrenia in Finland since 1980: decreasing and increasing again.

scientific article published on 20 March 2010

Influence of parental education, childhood adversities, and current living conditions on daily smoking in early adulthood

scientific article published on 26 April 2006

Internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) for common mental disorders and subsequent sickness absence: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Is there an independent association between burnout and increased allostatic load? Testing the contribution of psychological distress and depression

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Lifetime alcohol abstainers and moderate drinkers have a lower lifetime prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders than problem drinkers

scientific article published in May 2005

Lifetime prevalence of psychotic and bipolar I disorders in a general population

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Living arrangements and mental health in Finland

scientific article published on June 2006

Living arrangements, heavy drinking and alcohol dependence

scientific article published on 16 March 2007

Mental disorders and long-term labour market outcomes: nationwide cohort study of 2 055 720 individuals

scientific article published on 26 August 2019

Post-discharge suicides of inpatients with bipolar disorder in Finland

scientific article published on 24 July 2014

Prevalence and correlates of major depressive disorder and dysthymia in an eleven-year follow-up--results from the Finnish Health 2011 Survey

scientific article published on 8 November 2014

Psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diagnoses in adolescence and adulthood over-indebtedness among Finns born in 1987

Quality of life of psychiatric patients

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Reductions in postdischarge suicide after deinstitutionalization and decentralization: a nationwide register study in Finland

scientific article published in February 2007

Regional Correlates of Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment

scientific article published on 05 December 2016

Regional differences in five-year mortality after a first episode of schizophrenia in Finland

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Research letter. Body composition in subtypes of depression--a population-based survey

scientific article published on 3 February 2011

Risk factors for suicide in depression in Finland: first‐hospitalized patients followed up to 24 years

scientific article published on 12 December 2018

Schizophrenia among young people first admitted to psychiatric inpatient care during early and middle adolescence

Seasonal Effects on Hospitalizations Due to Mood and Psychotic Disorders: A Nationwide 31-Year Register Study

Seasonal variation in affective and other clinical symptoms among high-risk families for bipolar disorders in an Arctic population

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Size matters - determinants of modern, community-oriented mental health services

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Socioeconomic factors and use of psychotherapy in common mental disorders predisposing to disability pension

Socioeconomic factors in disability retirement due to mental disorders in Finland

scientific article published on 15 September 2020

Socioeconomic position at the age of 30 and the later risk of a mental disorder: a nationwide population-based register study

Substance-induced psychoses converting into schizophrenia: a register-based study of 18,478 Finnish inpatient cases

scientific article published in January 2013

Suicide in alcohol-dependent individuals: epidemiology and management

scientific article published on January 2004

Support for involvement of glutamate decarboxylase 1 and neuropeptide Y in anxiety susceptibility

scientific article published on 10 February 2012

Systematic analysis of circadian genes in a population-based sample reveals association of TIMELESS with depression and sleep disturbance

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Tanning dependence and seasonal affective disorder are frequent among sunbathers but are not associated

scientific article published on 18 December 2018

Temporary parental separation at birth and substance use disorder in adulthood. A long-term follow-up of the Finnish Christmas Seal Home Children

scientific article published on 24 October 2007

The Beck Depression Inventory and General Health Questionnaire as measures of depression in the general population: a validation study using the Composite International Diagnostic Interview as the gold standard

scientific article published on 23 February 2012

The association of psychological factors and healthcare use with the discrepancy between subjective and objective respiratory-health complaints in the general population

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The characteristics and outcomes of hospitalised and outpatient-treated first-onset schizophrenia patients: a 5-year register linkage study

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The characteristics of suicides within a week of discharge after psychiatric hospitalisation - a nationwide register study

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The importance of clinical and labour market histories in psychiatric disability retirement: analysis of the comprehensive Finnish national-level RETIRE data

scientific article published on 05 December 2019

Total and cause-specific mortality of Finnish military personnel following service in international peacekeeping operations 1990-2010: a comprehensive register-based cohort study

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Treatment of anxiety disorders in the Finnish general population

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Treatment of major depressive disorder in the Finnish general population

scientific article published in January 2009

Type 2 diabetes among persons with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders in a general population survey

scientific article published in April 2008

Update on current care guidelines: schizophrenia

scientific article published on January 1, 2013

Use of mental health services and complementary and alternative medicine in persons with common mental disorders

scientific article published on July 2008

Use of psychiatric medications in schizophrenia and other psychoses in a general population sample

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