Matti Sillanpää
MD PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Depts Child Neurology and General Practice, Univ. Turku
matsilla@utu.fi +358 29 450 2741 +358 40 082 9628 Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4190-3698 |
Areas of expertise
Child Neurology; Epilepsy; Migraine and Headache; Epidemiology; Chronic Neurological Diseases
Child Neurology; Epilepsy; Migraine and Headache; Epidemiology; Chronic Neurological Diseases
Research community or research topic
TACOE project; FFC project; Turku headache and migraine project
TACOE project; FFC project; Turku headache and migraine project
Biography
Born 1936, MD and authorized physician 1962; PhD 1973; Community Health Officer, Town of Loimaa 1962-64; Resident, Dept Pediatrics and Dept Neurology, Univ. Turku 1964-68; Senior Resident, Uppsala Univ. Hospital Academiska Sjukhuset 1968-69; Senior Consultant Child Neurologist and Pediatrician 1970-1976; Assoc. Prof, and Locum Prof, Dept Public Health; Univ. Turku 1976-1990; Prof. of Child Neurology, Univ. of Turku; Head, Dept. Child Neurology, Turku Univ. Hospital 1990-2001; Senior Research Scientist 2001-presently
Born 1936, MD and authorized physician 1962; PhD 1973; Community Health Officer, Town of Loimaa 1962-64; Resident, Dept Pediatrics and Dept Neurology, Univ. Turku 1964-68; Senior Resident, Uppsala Univ. Hospital Academiska Sjukhuset 1968-69; Senior Consultant Child Neurologist and Pediatrician 1970-1976; Assoc. Prof, and Locum Prof, Dept Public Health; Univ. Turku 1976-1990; Prof. of Child Neurology, Univ. of Turku; Head, Dept. Child Neurology, Turku Univ. Hospital 1990-2001; Senior Research Scientist 2001-presently
Publications
- Familial occurrence of signs of temporomandibular disorders in headache children and their mothers (2007)
- Acta Odontologica ScandinavicaEuropean Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Familial occurrence of signs of temporomandibular disorders in headache children and their mothers (2007)
- Acta Odontologica Scandinavica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Alcohol use in families: a 15-year prospective follow-up study (2006)
- Addiction
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Early predictors of deliberate self-harm among adolescents. A prospective follow-up study from age 3 to age 15 (2006)
- Journal of Affective Disorders
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Early predictors of parent- and self-reported perceived global psychological difficulties among adolescents – A prospective cohort study from age 3 to age 15 (2006)
- Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Extracephalic tenderness and pressure pain threshold in children with headache. (2006)
- European Journal of Pain
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Long-term trends in the incidence of headache in finnish schoolchildren (2006)
- Pediatrics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Natural history of treated childhood-onset epilepsy: Prospective, long-term population-based study (2006)
- Brain
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Prognosis of seizure recurrence after stopping antiepileptic drugs in seizure-free patients: A long-term population-based study of childhood-onset epilepsy (2006)
- Epilepsy and Behavior
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The continuity of psychopathology from early childhood to preadolescence - A prospective cohort study of 3-12-year-old children (2006)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



