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Matti Sillanpää is affiliated with Turku University Hospital in Finland and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, particularly focusing on pediatrics, perinatology, child health, and psychiatry and mental health. Their research also intersects with radiology, nuclear medicine, imaging, clinical psychology, and public health.

Their recent scholarly output includes publications in venues such as Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, Pediatric Neurology, BMC Pediatrics, Journal of Affective Disorders, and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

They have been involved in research addressing a variety of topics including:

  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Infant development and preterm care
  • Pharmacological effects and toxicity studies
  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development
  • Children's physical and motor development
  • Maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Child neurology services for children with epilepsy in Finland," 2020, Epilepsia Open
  • "Sense of coherence predicts adolescent mental health," 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "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
  • "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
  • "Progression of Amyloid Accumulation in Late Adulthood Among People With Childhood-Onset Epilepsy," 2025, Neurology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Riitta Parkkola
  • Päivi Rautava
  • Leena Haataja
  • Virva Saunavaara
  • Annika Lind

Best Publications

  • The epidemiology of epilepsy in Europe - a systematic review.

    Lars Forsgren;E. Beghi;A. Õun;M. Sillanpää

  • Long-term prognosis of seizures with onset in childhood.

    Matti Sillanpää;Merja Jalava;Olli Kaleva;Shlomo Shinnar

  • Natural history of treated childhood-onset epilepsy: prospective, long-term population-based study

    Matti Sillanpää;Dieter Schmidt

  • Caries in Five-year-old Children and Associations with Family-related Factors

    M.-L. Mattila;P. Rautava;M. Sillanpää;P. Paunio

  • Changes in the prevalence of migraine and other headaches during the first seven school years.

    Matti Sillanpää

  • Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: a review of incidence and risk factors.

    Torbjorn Tomson;Ted Walczak;Matti Sillanpaa;Josemir W. A. S. Sander

  • Long-term mortality in childhood-onset epilepsy.

    Matti Sillanpää;Shlomo Shinnar

  • Increasing Prevalence of Headache in 7‐Year‐Old Schoolchildren

    Matti Sillanpää;Pirjo Anttila

  • Mortality of epilepsy in developed countries: a review.

    Lars Forsgren;W Allen Hauser;Elias Olafsson;J W A S Sander

  • Commonalities in epileptogenic processes from different acute brain insults: Do they translate?

    Pavel Klein;Raymond Dingledine;Eleonora Aronica;Christophe Bernard

  • PYRIDOXINE AND SERUM CONCENTRATION OF PHENYTOIN AND PHENOBARBITONE

    O. Hansson;M. Sillanpaa

  • Speech sounds learned by sleeping newborns.

    M. Cheour;M. Cheour;O. Martynova;R. Näätänen;R. Erkkola

  • Remission of Seizures and Predictors of Intractability in Long‐Term Follow‐Up

    Matti Sillanpää

  • Epidemiology of childhood diabetes mellitus in Finland - background of a nationwide study of Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus

    Tuomilehto J;Lounamaa R;Tuomilehto-Wolf E;Reunanen A

  • Social adjustment and competence 35 years after onset of childhood epilepsy : A prospective controlled study

    Merja Jalava;Matti Sillanpää;Carol Camfield;Peter Camfield

  • Early predictors of deliberate self-harm among adolescents. A prospective follow-up study from age 3 to age 15

    Andre Sourander;Minna Aromaa;Leena Pihlakoski;Antti Haavisto

  • Prevalence of Headache at Preschool Age in an Unselected Child Population

    Matti Sillanpää;Paula Piekkala;Pentti Kero

  • Carbamazepine. Pharmacology and clinical uses.

    Sillanpää M

  • Perceived Impact of Childhood‐onset Epilepsy on Quality of Life as an Adult

    Matti Sillanpää;Leena Haataja;Shlomo Shinnar

  • Epilepsy in Children: Prevalence, Disability, and Handicap

    Matti Sillanpää

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans Helenius
Hans Helenius University of Turku
Dieter Schmidt
Dieter Schmidt Freie Universität Berlin
Andre Sourander
Andre Sourander University of Turku
Shlomo Shinnar
Shlomo Shinnar Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Albert P. Aldenkamp
Albert P. Aldenkamp Eindhoven University of Technology
David W. Dunn
David W. Dunn Indiana University
Giuseppe Gobbi
Giuseppe Gobbi University of Bologna
Sakari Suominen
Sakari Suominen University of Turku
Jaakko Kaprio
Jaakko Kaprio University of Helsinki
Mika Gissler
Mika Gissler Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

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