Ru Li
PhD
Department of Psychiatry ru.li@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6275-5156 |
Research community or research topic
Child Morbidity; FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study
Child Morbidity; FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study
Research
My research interests lie in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine, including two main areas: population-based studies of mental health, and clinical research on sleep, circadian rhythms, and cognitive function, with a particular focus on prevention, intervention, and real-world translation.
Teaching
Publications 
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- New, but too much — A comment on “new form of addiction: An emerging hazardous addiction problem of milk tea among youths” (2025)
- Journal of Affective Disorders
(B1 Other refereed article (e.g., editorial, letter, comment) in a scientific journal) - Prenatal Substance Exposure and Obesity: Trajectories of Tri-Ponderal Mass Index in Early Adolescence (2025)
- American Journal of Preventive Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - What Makes People Like Dreamcore Aesthetics? the Role of Trait Nostalgia in Preferences for Dreamcore Imagery (2025)
- Empirical Studies of the Arts
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Trajectories of COVID-19 pandemic-related depressive symptoms and potential predictors: the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2024)
- Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Longitudinal patterns of alcohol use and psychological symptoms during COVID-19 pandemic and role of alexithymia: A latent transition analysis in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2023)
- Journal of Affective Disorders
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Relationships between alexithymia and food addiction: The Finnish version of Yale Food Addiction Scale and preliminary test of its psychometric properties (2023)
- Frontiers in Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Sex‐specific role of alexithymia in associations between parental bonding and mental health: A moderated mediation model (2023)
- Journal of Clinical Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The role of alexithymic traits in shaping mental health in the context of parental bonding and COVID-19 pandemic: FinnBrain birth cohort study (2023) Li Ru
(G5 Article dissertation ) - Gender-specific associations between the dimensions of alexithymia personality trait and dental anxiety in parents of the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2022)
- European Journal of Oral Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The role of alexithymia and perceived stress in mental health responses to COVID-19: A conditional process model (2022)
- Journal of Affective Disorders
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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