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Heimo Viinamäki is affiliated with the University of Eastern Finland in Finland. Their research activity spans the fields of medicine and neuroscience, with particular focus on neurology, pathology and forensic medicine, epidemiology, clinical psychology, and biological psychiatry.

Viinamäki's scientific contributions encompass several main topics including vitamin D research studies, adipokines, inflammation and metabolic diseases, eating disorders and behaviors, tryptophan and brain disorders, stress responses and cortisol, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, as well as cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Viinamäki include the following:

  • Could vitamin D reduce obesity-associated inflammation? Observational and Mendelian randomization study, 2020, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Inflammation, hippocampal volume, and cognition in schizophrenia: results from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966, 2020, European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • 5-Year health-related quality of life outcome in patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus, 2021, Journal of Neurology

Frequent publication venues for Viinamäki include the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, and Journal of Neurology.

Collaborations are seen with several frequent co-authors, among them:

  • Jari Jokelainen
  • Toni Karhu
  • Markku Timonen
  • Sirkka Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi
  • Karl-Heinz Herzig

Best Publications

  • Depression is strongly associated with alexithymia in the general population.

    Kirsi Honkalampi;Jukka Hintikka;Antti Tanskanen;Johannes Lehtonen

  • Life satisfaction and suicide: a 20-year follow-up study.

    Heli Koivumaa-Honkanen;Risto Honkanen;Heimo Viinamäki;Kauko Heikkilä

  • Pain as a reason to visit the doctor: a study in Finnish primary health care.

    Pekka Mäntyselkä;Esko Kumpusalo;Riitta Ahonen;Anne Kumpusalo

  • Quantitative MRI of the hippocampus and amygdala in severe depression.

    E. Mervaala;J. Föhr;M. Könönen;M. Valkonen-Korhonen

  • Self-reported Life Satisfaction and 20-Year Mortality in Healthy Finnish Adults

    H Koivumaa-Honkanen;R Honkanen;H Viinamaki;Kauko Veli Heikkilä

  • Fish Consumption and Depressive Symptoms in the General Population in Finland

    Antti Tanskanen;Joseph R. Hibbeln;Jaakko Tuomilehto;Antti Uutela

  • Life satisfaction and depression in a 15-year follow-up of healthy adults.

    Heli Koivumaa-Honkanen;Jaakko Kaprio;Risto Honkanen;Heimo Viinamäki

  • Fish Consumption, Depression, and Suicidality in a General Population

    Antti Tanskanen;Joseph R. Hibbeln;Jukka Hintikka;Kaisa Haatainen

  • Nightmares as Predictors of Suicide

    Antti Tanskanen;Jaakko Tuomilehto;Heimo Viinamäki;Erkki Vartiainen

  • Factors associated with alexithymia in patients suffering from depression.

    Kirsi Honkalampi;Pirjo Saarinen;Jukka Hintikka;Vuokko Virtanen

  • Striatal dopamine transporter density in major depression.

    Teijamari Laasonen-Balk;Jyrki Kuikka;Heimo Viinamäki;Minna Husso-Saastamoinen

  • Metabolic Syndrome and Depression: A Cross-Sectional Analysis

    Tuula H. Heiskanen;Leo K. Niskanen;Jukka J. Hintikka;Heli T. Koivumaa-Honkanen

  • Is Alexithymia a Permanent Feature in Depressed Patients

    Kirsi Honkalampi;Jukka Hintikka;Pirjo Saarinen;Johannes Lehtonen

  • Are alexithymia and depression distinct or overlapping constructs?: a study in a general population.

    Jukka Hintikka;Kirsi Honkalampi;Johannes Lehtonen;Heimo Viinamäki

  • Dietary folate and the risk of depression in Finnish middle-aged men. A prospective follow-up study.

    Tommi Tolmunen;Jukka Hintikka;Anu Ruusunen;Sari Voutilainen

  • Correlates of life satisfaction among psychiatric patients

    H T Koivumaa-Honkanen;H Viinamäki;R Honkanen;A Tanskanen

  • Factors associated with pathological dissociation in the general population

    Päivi Maaranen;Antti Tanskanen;Kirsi Honkalampi;Kaisa Haatainen

  • Depression is associated with poorer outcome of lumbar spinal stenosis surgery.

    Sanna Sinikallio;Timo Aalto;Olavi Airaksinen;Arto Herno

  • Altered cerebral blood flow during hysterical paresthesia

    Jari Tiihonen;Jyrki Kuikka;Heimo Viinamäki;Johannes Lehtonen

  • Dietary Folate and Depressive Symptoms Are Associated in Middle-Aged Finnish Men

    Tommi Tolmunen;Sari Voutilainen;Jukka Hintikka;Tiina Rissanen

Frequent Co-Authors

Kirsi Honkalampi
Kirsi Honkalampi University of Eastern Finland
Leo Niskanen
Leo Niskanen University of Helsinki
Johannes Lehtonen
Johannes Lehtonen University of Eastern Finland
Jari Tiihonen
Jari Tiihonen Karolinska Institute
Karl-Heinz Herzig
Karl-Heinz Herzig Oulu University Hospital
Heikki Kröger
Heikki Kröger University of Eastern Finland
George A. Kaplan
George A. Kaplan University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Erkki Vartiainen
Erkki Vartiainen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Jaakko Tuomilehto
Jaakko Tuomilehto University of Helsinki
Jaakko Kaprio
Jaakko Kaprio University of Helsinki

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