Sami Pirkola

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..Information on prevalence, accumulation and variation of common mental disorders is essential for both etiological research and development of mental health service systems...

..The sex-specific role of stressful or traumatic childhood experiences and adverse circumstances in developing adulthood mental disorders is complex and still in need of comprehensive research...

..To study the factors relating to remission from alcohol dependence in the general population...

..Our aim was to study whether circadian clock gene polymorphisms predispose to alcohol dependence or abuse or other alcohol-related characteristics...

..We examined the geographical variation in the lifetime prevalence of psychotic disorders in a comprehensive general population study...

..We estimated the rates of different treatments and the effect of individual and disorder characteristics plus provider type on treatment received...

..003). In conclusion, we provide further support for involvement of mainly GAD1, but also NPY in determining predisposition to anxiety disorders...

..To estimate the gender-specific prevalences of alcohol consumption levels and to investigate the association between heavy drinking and all-cause mortality among elderly males...

..We studied the impact of comorbidity and recency in psychiatric disorders on psychological well-being, perceived health, and quality of life and compared their effect with the effect of a chronic medical condition, type 2 diabetes mellitus...

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..To explore the association of parental education, childhood living conditions and several adversities with heavy drinking in early adulthood, and to analyze the effect of the respondent's current circumstances on these associations...

..The aim was to study utilisation patterns and determinants of antidepressant use in the general population >30 years, especially short-term use or use not related to known psychiatric morbidity...

..To examine the associations between alcohol consumption and utility-based health-related quality of life (HRQoL), subjective quality of life (QoL), self-rated health (SRH), and mental distress...

..This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and associations of hazardous drinking in comparison to AUDs, moderate drinking, and abstinence...

..One of the key substances regulating sleep is adenosine. We hypothesized that variations in polymorphic sites of adenosine related genes may predispose to depression with sleep disturbances...

..These findings support a connection between circadian genes and gender-dependent depression and defective sleep regulation...

..We tested this hypothesis with a genetic association analysis...

..To assess the variation in heavy drinking and alcohol dependence by living arrangements, and the contribution of social and behavioural factors to this variation...

..Measurement of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) with generic preference-based instruments enables comparisons of severity across different conditions and treatments. This is necessary for rational public health policy...

..Recent general population surveys of psychotic disorders have found low lifetime prevalences. However, this may be owing to methodological problems. Few studies have reported the prevalences of all specific psychotic disorders...

..Epidemiological data on alcohol-induced psychotic disorder and delirium (alcohol-induced psychotic syndrome, AIPS) are scarce...

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..For instance, carefulness in the practice of prescribing of intoxicating substances to particular psychiatric patients seems justified...

..This finding has potentially important implications supporting the view that childhood adversities might have a considerable impact on well being later in life...

..To investigate the relationship of burnout to alcohol dependence and high alcohol consumption...

..This study aims to establish the extent and determinants of mental health differences by living arrangement in terms of psychological distress (GHQ) and DSM-IV psychiatric disorders (CIDI)...

..Even the 6-item version of the BDI showed acceptable criterion validity, although replication in an independent dataset is needed to confirm its validity...

..Seasonal variations in day length and temperature seem likely to contribute to the timing of the suicide process...

..We addressed here the role of NPS and NPSR1 as susceptibility genes for human anxiety disorders...

..We investigated this reform by assessing the relation between suicide risk and different ways of organising mental-health services...

..These differences may partially explain the broad spectrum of depressive symptoms, and their systematic monitoring could potentially be used for diagnostic purposes...