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
- Sense of coherence predicts adolescent mental health (2020)
- Journal of Affective Disorders
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Association between the Preference for Active Play and Neurological Development in Toddlers: A Register-Based Study (2020)
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Adolescent with caries and experienced interaction with dental staff (2019)
- International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Neurocognition in childhood epilepsy: Impact on mortality and complete seizure remission 50 years later (2019)
- Epilepsia
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Overrepresentation of epilepsy in children with type 1 diabetes is declining in a longitudinal population study in Finland (2019)
- Acta Paediatrica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Staircase-pattern neonatal line in human deciduous teeth is associated with tooth type (2019)
- Archives of Oral Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Commonalities in epileptogenic processes from different acute brain insults: Do they translate? (2018)
- Epilepsia
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Common Variant Burden Contributes to the Familial Aggregation of Migraine in 1,589 Families (2018)
- Neuron
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Long-term offspring epilepsy outcomes following planned assisted homebirth versus hospital birth (2018)
- Journal of Epileptology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Long term outcome of childhood onset headache: A prospective community study (2018)
- Cephalalgia
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



