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Jaana Suvisaari is affiliated with the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) in Finland. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine and psychology, with a particular focus on psychiatric and mental health, clinical psychology, and genetics. Additional areas of study include general health professions and cognitive neuroscience.

Their scientific contributions have been published predominantly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Schizophrenia Research, European Neuropsychopharmacology, Psychiatry Research, and Schizophrenia Bulletin.

Suvisaari's research topics cover a range of subjects related to mental health and neuropsychiatric disorders. Key topics include schizophrenia research and treatment, mental health treatment and access, bipolar disorder and treatment, genetic associations and epidemiology, COVID-19 and mental health, tryptophan and brain disorders, and functional brain connectivity studies.

Frequent collaborators in their work include Tuula Kieseppä, Markku Lähteenvuo, Minna Torniainen-Holm, Jari Tiihonen, and Jouko Lönnqvist.

Recent notable publications include:

  • "Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia" (2022, Nature)
  • "Factors contributing to psychological distress in the working population, with a special reference to gender difference" (2021, BMC Public Health)
  • "General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-6), and Mental Health Index (MHI-5): psychometric and predictive properties in a Finnish population-based sample" (2020, Psychiatry Research)
  • "The impact of rare protein coding genetic variation on adult cognitive function" (2023, Nature Genetics)
  • "Mental health after the COVID-19 pandemic among Finnish youth: a repeated, cross-sectional, population-based study" (2024, The Lancet Psychiatry)

Best Publications

  • Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

    Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Aiden Corvin;James T. R. Walters

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci

    Stephan Ripke;Alan R. Sanders;Kenneth S. Kendler;Douglas F. Levinson

  • Large recurrent microdeletions associated with schizophrenia

    Hreinn Stefansson;Dan Rujescu;Sven Cichon;Olli P. H. Pietilainen

  • Common variants conferring risk of schizophrenia

    Hreinn Stefansson;Hreinn Stefansson;Roel A. Ophoff;Roel A. Ophoff;Roel A. Ophoff;Stacy Steinberg;Stacy Steinberg;Ole A. Andreassen

  • Lifetime Prevalence of Psychotic and Bipolar I Disorders in a General Population

    Jonna Perälä;Jaana Suvisaari;Samuli I. Saarni;Kimmo Kuoppasalmi

  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies 13 new risk loci for schizophrenia

    Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Colm T. O'Dushlaine;Kimberly D. Chambert;Jennifer L. Moran

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • A structural variation reference for medical and population genetics

    Ryan L Collins;Ryan L Collins;Harrison Brand;Harrison Brand;Konrad J Karczewski;Konrad J Karczewski;Xuefang Zhao;Xuefang Zhao

  • Contribution of copy number variants to schizophrenia from a genome-wide study of 41,321 subjects

    Christian R Marshall;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniele Merico;Bhooma Thiruvahindrapuram

  • A review on cognitive impairments in depressive and anxiety disorders with a focus on young adults.

    Anu E. Castaneda;Annamari Tuulio-Henriksson;Mauri Marttunen;Jaana Suvisaari

  • Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes

    Douglas M. Ruderfer;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Andrew McQuillin;James Boocock

  • Partitioning heritability of regulatory and cell-type-specific variants across 11 common diseases

    Alexander Gusev;S. Hong Lee;Gosia Trynka;Hilary Finucane

  • DSM-IV mood-, anxiety- and alcohol use disorders and their comorbidity in the Finnish general population--results from the Health 2000 Study.

    Sami P. Pirkola;Erkki Isometsä;Jaana Suvisaari;Hillevi Aro

  • Genomewide association studies: history, rationale, and prospects for psychiatric disorders.

    Sven Cichon;Nick Craddock;Mark Daly;Mark Daly;Stephen V. Faraone

  • Disruption of the neurexin 1 gene is associated with schizophrenia

    Dan Rujescu;Andres Ingason;Andres Ingason;Sven Cichon;Olli P.H. Pietiläinen

  • Impact of psychiatric disorders on health-related quality of life: general population survey

    Samuli I. Saarni;Jaana Suvisaari;Harri Sintonen;Sami Pirkola

  • The impact of 29 chronic conditions on health-related quality of life: a general population survey in Finland using 15D and EQ-5D.

    Samuli I. Saarni;Tommi Härkänen;Harri Sintonen;Jaana Suvisaari

  • Rare loss-of-function variants in SETD1A are associated with schizophrenia and developmental disorders

    Tarjinder Singh;Mitja I Kurki;David Curtis;Shaun M Purcell

  • The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease

    Klaudia Walter;Josine L. Min;Jie Huang;Lucy Crooks

  • Lifetime prevalence of psychotic and bipolar I disorders in a general population. Commentary

    John J. Mcgrath;Jonna Perälä;Jaana Suvisaari;Samuli I. Saarni

Frequent Co-Authors

Jouko Lönnqvist
Jouko Lönnqvist Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Tiina Paunio
Tiina Paunio University of Helsinki
Annamari Tuulio-Henriksson
Annamari Tuulio-Henriksson University of Helsinki
Samuli I. Saarni
Samuli I. Saarni Tampere University
Jari Haukka
Jari Haukka University of Helsinki
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Mika Gissler
Mika Gissler Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Roel A. Ophoff
Roel A. Ophoff University of California, Los Angeles
Erkki Isometsä
Erkki Isometsä University of Helsinki
Timo Partonen
Timo Partonen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

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