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I graduated from medicine and specialized in psychiatry at the University of Helsinki, Finland. My primary research project has been the first one in Finland to provide light therapy via the eyes in the treatment of seasonal affective disorder (winter depression), and to analyze its effects in a series of clinical trials starting from 1988.Read my story (www.frontiersin.org/image/A_light_story/769). As a hobby I take photos of light and study how light falls on and take place in the landscape.So far, I have published 310+ peer-reviewed original scientific articles as well as 60+ review articles, in addition to book chapters. I have edited 2 scientific books on seasonal affective disorder (in English) for Oxford University Press, the first edition of which was awarded the First Prize of British Medical Association Medical Book Competition in Mental Health Category in 2002.I have written 5 popular science books (in Finnish). Currently, I am Section Editor (Psychiatry) in the editorial board of Annals of Medicine, for which I have acted since 1996. I am in the editorial board for the textbook of psychiatry, with 17 editions, which has been used in the university level education since 1999.Earlier, I worked as Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Helsinki University Central Hospital. Currently, I am Associate Professor (Title of Docent) of Psychiatry at the University of Helsinki, and I work as Research Professor in the Mental Health team at the Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finland.My research activities are focused on the routinely emerging fluctuations in mood and behavior as seen, e.g., in winter blues and suicide mortality. My research project was elected as one of the 10 success stories in health sciences by the Academy of Finland in 2012.To deliver new measures for suicide prevention and health promotion, my goal is to answer to the research question: What mechanisms do contribute to deepening of the depressive episode during spring, to recurrence of winter depression, and to progression of chronotype toward eveningness after puberty?

Listed skills include Clinical Research, Psychiatry, Clinical Trials, Research, and 22 others.

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  Research Professor

  Finnish Institute For Health And Welfare (Thl)

  Mar 2013 - Present - Helsinki, Finland