Marika Leppänen
MD, PhD, child psychiatrist
preterm born infants; mental health; neurodevelopmental disorders; register study
https://sites.utu.fi/childmorbidity/tutkimus/ https://sites.utu.fi/pipari/ https://sites.utu.fi/sote/yhteistyo/hankkeet/nepsos-neuropsykiatrisesti-oireilevat-nuoret-palvelujen-pyorteissa/
- Maternal pre- and postnatal depression and anxiety: Impacts on childhood asthma and its phenotypes (2026)
- Journal of Psychosomatic Research
- Maternal mental health disorders associate with their child's asthma: A register-based study (2025)
- Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health
- Trends in the incidence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and early risk factors (2025)
- JCPP Advances
- Burden of mental, behavioral, and neurodevelopmental disorders in the Finnish most preterm children: a national register study (2024)
- European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Early psychosocial parent-infant interventions and parent-infant relationships after preterm birth-a scoping review (2024)
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Longitudinal associations between parental early psychological distress and children's emotional and behavioural problems during early childhood and self-reported social functioning in 11-year-old children born very preterm (2024)
- European Journal of Developmental Psychology
- Maternal mental health disorders one year before and three years after childbirth are associated with offspring school-age asthma: Finnish register study (2024)
- European Respiratory Journal
- Web-based follow-up tool (ePIPARI) of preterm infants-study protocol for feasibility and performance (2023)
- BMC Pediatrics
- Social functioning questionnaires of adolescents born preterm show average profiles and attenuated sex differences (2021)
- Acta Paediatrica
Leena Haataja, Liisa Lehtonen, Riikka Korja; the PIPARI Study Group - Antenatal and Postnatal Growth and 5-Year Cognitive Outcome in Very Preterm Infants (2014)
- Pediatrics
- Pikkukeskosen syntymän jälkeinen kasvu on yhteydessä älylliseen kehitykseen (2014)
- Duodecim
- The Association between Growth and Neurodevelopment in Very Preterm Infants – A Follow-up Study in the PIPARI Study (2014) Leppänen Marika
- Growth of extremely preterm infants born in 2001-2010 (2013)
- Acta Paediatrica
- Preterm infants' early growth and brain white matter maturation at term age (2013)
- Pediatric Radiology
- Abnormal antenatal Doppler velocimetry and cognitive outcome in very-low-birth-weight infants at 2 years of age (2010)
- Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
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