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 |
Child Neurology; Epilepsy; Migraine and Headache; Epidemiology; Chronic Neurological Diseases
TACOE project; FFC project; Turku headache and migraine project
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
- Transfer of Finnish adolescents with epilepsy to adult care: a population-based study (2026)
- Epilepsy and Behavior
- Cognitive decline over 7 years in aging patients with childhood-onset epilepsy: A population-based prospective follow-up study (2025)
- Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
- Lapsuusiän epilepsia saattaa altistaa myöhäisiän muistisairaudelle = Progression of amyloid accumulation in late adulthood among people with childhood-onset epilepsy (2025)
- Duodecim
- Progression of Amyloid Accumulation in Late Adulthood Among People With Childhood-Onset Epilepsy (2025)
- Neurology
- The changing incidence of childhood epilepsy in Finland (2024)
- Seizure - European Journal of Epilepsy
- Differences in brain changes between adults with childhood-onset epilepsy and controls: A prospective population-based study (2022)
- Acta Neurologica Scandinavica
- Parental distress rating at the child's age of 15 years predicts probable mental diagnosis: a three-year follow-up (2022)
- BMC Pediatrics
- Teenagers' mental health problems predict probable mental diagnosis 3 years later among girls, but what about the boys? (2022)
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
- Child neurology services for children with epilepsy in Finland (2020)
- Epilepsia Open
- Nachruf auf Professor Dr. med. Dieter Schmidt (28.04.1947–08.09.2019) (2020)
- Zeitschrift für Epileptologie



